I can’t help but wonder where I’m bound    (intro)

 

    intro : instrumental = CHORUS

 

            C                                            F             C     Dm

1 It’s a long and a dusty road , it’s a hot and heavy load

                   G         G7                      C

    And the folks I meet ain’t always kind.

                  C                                                        F            Am           Dm

Some are bad and some are good, some have done the best they could,

                       G         G7                         C

   some have tried to ease my troublin’ mind.

 

          Dm                  G                           C          Em         Am

And I cant help but wonder where I’m bound, where I’m bound,

Dm                       G                            C

    can’t help but wonder where I’m bound.

 

+ Dm - G - C

 

                       C                                           F              C     Dm

  2 I’ve been wandering through this land, doing the best I can,

                   G          G7                      C

    trying to find what I was meant to do.

                    C                                      F       Am      Dm

    And the people that I see look as worried as can be,

               G              G7                           C

    and it looks like they are wondering, too.  

 

+ CHORUS     + repeat CHORUS as instrumental

 

                 C                                                 F           Am       Dm

3. Now, I had a little girl one time, she had lips like cherry wine,

                   G                       G7                           C

    and she loved me till my head went plumb insane.

               C                                             F         Am          Dm

    But I was too blind to see she was drifting away from me,

                    G                  G7                           C

    and my good girl went off on the morning train.  

 

+ CHORUS  

 

 

 

 

 

 

               C                                          F              Am     Dm

4. And I had a buddy back home but he started out to roam,

               G            G7                  C

    and I hear he’s out by Frisco Bay.

                     C                                               

    And sometimes when I’ve had a few,

                 F                  Am        Dm

    his old voice comes ringing through,

                   G                G7                         C

    and I’m going out to see him some old day. 

 

          Dm                  G                           C          Em         Am

And I cant help but wonder where I’m bound, where I’m bound,

Dm                       G                            C

    can’t help but wonder where I’m bound.

 

+ Dm - G - C

 

                         C                                         F          Am       Dm

5. Well, if you see me passing by and you sit and wonder why

                    G          G7                             C

    and you wish that you were a rambler, too,

                      C                                                   F         Am       Dm

    nail your shoes to the kitchen floor, lace ‘em up and bar the door,

                        G                G7                     C

    thank your stars for the roof that’s over you.

 

+ CHORUS   + CHORUS as instrumental

    

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (Tom Paxton)