Hitchhiker (video)

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1. When I was a hitchhiker on the road I had to count on you,

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but you needed me to ease the load and for conversation, too.

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Or did you just ride on through ? + Em

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2. You didn't see me in Toronto when I first tried out some hash,

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smoked some then and I'll do it again if I only had some cash.

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If I only had some cash. + Am - Em

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3. Then I tried amphetamines and my head was in a glass,

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taped underneath the speedometer wires of my '48 Buick's dash.

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But I knew that wouldn't last. + Em ~

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+ Then came California, where I first saw open water,

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in the land of opportunity, I knew I was getting hotter.

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I knew I was getting hotter. + Am - Em ~

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4. But the neon lights and the endless nights, they took me by surprise,

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the doctor gave me valium, but I still couldn't close my eyes.

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I still couldn't close my eyes. + Em

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+ Then came paranoia and it ran away with me,

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I couldn't sign my autograph or appear on TV.

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Or see or be seen. + C ~

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5. Living in the country sounded good to me,

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smoking grass with my Chicago lass in a real organic scene,

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where everything was green.

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6. Then we had a kid and we split apart, I was living on the road,

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a little cocaine went a long, long way to ease that different load.

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But that ain't all that I know. + Em

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+ I wish I was an Aztec or a runner in Peru,

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I would build such beautiful buildings to house the chosen few,

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like an Inca from Peru. + G - Em .....

(Neil Young)