Tablature king of the road - The Proclaimers

          



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  Sent to archive by: rkh2@ukc.ac.uk (Ryan Harding)

  Originally posted by: cseb@frodo.lfi.uni-hannover.de (Christian Sebeke)

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  The Proclaimers' version may use different chords but then you might want to

  transpose it for your voice anyway.

  

  Here we go (taken from a greatest hits collection):

  

  KING OF THE ROAD

  (Roger Miller)

  

  

  Bb            Eb           F              Bb  

    Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents,

                 Eb            F

    No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes, ah but

  Bb             Eb                  F         Bb

    Two hours of pushing broom buys an eight by twelve fourbit room,

                 Eb                F            Bb

    I'm a man of means by no means, King of the Road

    

    

  Bb              Eb             F            Bb

    Third box car midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine,

                 Eb             F               Bb

    Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues, I smoke

                Eb           F                   Bb

    Old stogies I have found, short, but not too big around,

                 Eb                F            Bb

    I'm a man of means by no means, King of the Road

    

           B                 E

    I know every engineer on every train,

    F#                      B

    All of the children and all of their names

                         E

    And every handout in every town

        F#

    And ev'ry lock that ain't locked when

    

    No one's around I sing ...

  

  B             E            F#             B  

    Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents,

                 E             F#

    No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes, ah but

  B              E                   F#               B

    Two hours of pushing broom buys a eight by twelve fourbit room,

                 E                 F#           B

    I'm a man of means by no means, King of the Road

  

  rep. last verse 

  

   


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 King of the road, de The proclaimers 

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