Going Nowhere

Intro:  E – F – F# - G 

 
    G                            C            D 
She blew it all on alcohol and a bad Missouri boy 
G                             C      D   G 
Sweet Loretta Farmington from Cairo, Illinois 
    G                                    C                D 
Her daddy said don't leave us girl don't throw your life away 
G                                     C        D         G 
She just smiled so young and wild and all that she would say 


             Am       C     G 
Is I'm going nowhere 
          Am          C     D 
I'm going nowhere 
        C             G 
Singing I can't see tomorrow 
        C       C/B    Am 
But I'm leavin' here today 
          Am 
I'm going nowhere 
       C       D        G 
But at least I know the way 


G                                     C            D 
After dark in a trailer park with the bad Missouri guy 
G                                  C         D        G 
Pumped her full of jimson weed and blackened both her eyes 
G                            C               D 
Mornings found him sober and begging her to stay 
    G                        C        D         G 
But he knew it was over when all that she would say is 

 
          Am         C     G 
I’m going nowhere 
           Am        C     D 
Just going nowhere 
        C           G 
Singing I can't see tomorrow 
        C       C/B   Am 
But I'm leavin' you today 
          Am 
I'm going nowhere 
       C       D        C 
But at least I know the way 

Solo:
        C             Em 
        C       C/B    Am 
          Am 
       C       D        G 

 
G                                C              D 
Thumbing down the highway with a brand new baby boy 
G                             C       D   G 
Sweet Loretta Farmington from K-Mart, Illinois 
G                       C              D 
Twenty-one and holding, looking thirty-five 
G                        C       D   G 
Carrying her redemption, glad to be alive 


          Am        C      G 
And going nowhere 
          Am        C      D 
Just going nowhere 
        C             G 
Singing I can't see tomorrow 
           C       C/B  Am 
'Cause I'm holding my today 
          Am 
I'm going nowhere 
       C       D        G 
But at least I know the way 

          Am 
I'm going nowhere 
       C       D        G 
But at least I know the way