More songs by Gordon Lightfoot

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- T-rev

"CAREFREE HIGHWAY" by Gordon Lightfoot www.lightfoot.ca
From his 1974 album Sundown
Written by Gordon Lightfoot
Written by Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr.
Transcribed by T-rev www.t-rev.net

Capo 2               D      C      G      A4      A

D              A            F#              Bm    A
Picking up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream
  G              D             A4      A
I wonder how the old folks are tonight
    D                A                 F#           Bm
Her name was Ann and I'll be damned if I recall her face
G               A               D
She left me not knowing what to do

                 C       G       A            D
        Carefree highway, let me slip away on you...
                 C       G            A
     ...Carefree highway, you've seen better days
            Bm            A             G         D/F#  E4    E
        The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes
      D          C       G       A4        A
        Carefree highway, let me slip away...
                     D      C      G      A4   A
     ...Slip away on you
                     D      C      G      A4      A


D                A            F#           Bm   A
Turning back the pages to the times I love best
  G                D           A4   A
I wonder if she'll ever do the same
        D                 A              F#         Bm
Now the thing that I call living is just being satisfied
     G             A              D
With knowing I got no one left to blame

                 C       G         A              D
        Carefree highway, I got to see you my old flame...

D                     A               F#              Bm    A
Searching through the fragments of my dream-shattered sleep
  G             D                     A4   A
I wonder if the years have closed her mind
  D                A             F#            Bm
I guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get free
         G                 A               D
From the good old faithful feeling we once knew

                 C
        Carefree highway...

                     D      C
     ...Slip away on you
      G        A4       A   D
        Let me slip away on you
                 C       G         A              D
        Carefree highway, I got to see you my old flame...

Transcribed 2023-05-03 by T-rev
More tab available at www.t-rev.net

xx0232 D
x32010 C
320003 G
x02230 A4
x02220 A
244322 F#
x24432 Bm
200232 D/F#
022200 E4
022100 E

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