If You Dont Know Where You're Going

Intro:
E  A  E  B  E  A  E  


Verse 
                     F#m      A                  E 
He slammed the door behind him, called his daddy “dumb” 

                   F#m    A                E              
He left home with tomorrow a-ridin’ on his thumb 

                F#m    A               E 
No particular direction, seventeen and scared 

          E    A          F#m                     A         E 
Hitched a ride beside the road, driver said “Son, where you goin?’” 

            A         E (hold) 
He said “anywhere but here” 
 


[Chorus]
                               A                                 E 
If you don’t know where you’re goin’, any old road will take you there 

          E        A            F#m    B                           E 
When it’s ramblin’ seeds you’re sowin’, you can’t find the will to care 

            A                         C#m    F#m 
Any way you travel, red dirt, clay or gravel 

               A                      F#m      
Lost without a prayer, destination anywhere 

                           E 
Any old road will take you there 


Verse 2 

                   F#m  A                       E 
A little all night café, a young woman there in tears 

                                 F#m     A                         E 
The waitress says “You want some coffee?  Does anybody know you’re here?” 

                   F#m   A                       E 
She slowly tells a story, says “he don’t love me anymore, 

          E          A      F#m                       A    E 
I left my ring there by the bed and I don’t know what lies ahead 

                      A     E  (hold)    
I’ve never been this ‘gone’ before” 




[Chorus]
                               A                                 E 
If you don’t know where you’re goin’, any old road will take you there 

          E        A            F#m   B                            E 
When it’s ramblin’ seeds you’re sowin’, you can’t find the will to care 

            A                         C#m    F#m 
Any way you travel, red dirt, clay or gravel 

               A                      F#m      
Lost without a prayer, destination anywhere 

                           E 
Any old road will take you there 


Bridge 

    D                             A 
Sometimes the road is narrow, sometimes the path is straight 

   F#m                              B 
At times we face so many curves our turns are hard to take 




[Chorus]
N.C.                           A                                 G#m 
If you don’t know where you’re goin’, any old road will take you there 

          G#m      A            F#m   B                            E 
When it’s ramblin’ seeds you’re sowin’, you can’t find the will to care 

            A                         C#m    F#m 
Any way you travel, red dirt, clay or gravel 

               A                      F#m      
Lost without a prayer, destination anywhere 

                           E 
Any old road will take you there 

                  F#m                      A 
Out there runnin’ scared, in the middle of nowhere 

        B                  F#m       A   E 
Any old road will take you there