G                  D                 C
E|----7------------------5-----------------3---------------------------------|
B|----8------------------7-----------------5---------------------------------|
G|----7------------------7-----------------5---------------------------------|
D|----0------------------0-----------------0---------------------------------|
A|----X------------------X-----------------X---------------------------------|
E|----0------------------0-----------------0---------------------------------|

VERSE 1

G                    D           G     D
He came from Northern California
G                      D     G     D
He loved to ride them trains
G                                      D                                      G    D
He had a hand made beat up leather bag where he kept all his childhood pains
G                                   D                   G         D
Left his mama and his daddy, When he was barely 16
G                                      D                             G         D
You know he never really followed money, Never really had a dream

CHORUS

C                                             
Loved the thought of drifting
C
to live by no mans plan
C
solitude is freedom, yeah
C                   G    D    G    D
The road made him a man 

VERSE 2 
G                                      D                    G         D
From coast to coast across every state, on Pacific Illinois
G                                      D                                G       D
He saw every town he every town dreamt about since he was a little boy
G                                      D                  G         D
He ended up down in New Orleans working on a folsom farm
G                                         D                                    G     D
He took LSD and danced all night, you know he met a woman that made him calm

CHORUS
C
Loved the thought of drifting
C
to live by no mans plan
C
solitude is freedom, yeah
C                      G   D   G   D
The road made him a man

VERSE 3

G                                      D                    G         D
Somewhere deep inside of him changed when he saw her face
G                                      D                    G         D
yeah he felt like she knew him well from another time and place
G                                      D                                       G     D
you know they woke up with the sun one day and their travelin' days were done
G                                      D                    G         D
settled down in a shotgun house, down on bayou St. John

CHORUS

C
Loved the thought of drifting
C
To live by no mans land
C
Solitude is freedom, yeah 
C
The road made him a man

**Instrumental Break**

OUTRO

G                      D
Ride that river on to Mississippi soul (X3)
G                      D
And if you wind that river long enough you get Louisiana gold 
G                      D
you get Louisiana gold (x3)