Jordan Am A Hard Road To Travel

Written by Daniel Decatur Emmett

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

    G              C       G
I’m gonna sing you a brand new song
                       D
It’s all the truth for certain
   G               C     G
We can’t live high if we get by
               D          G
And get on the other side of Jordan

Chorus

   G                          C            G
Oh pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves
                         D
Jordan is a hard road to travel
     G                     C            G
Pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves
                         D        G
Jordan is a hard road to travel I believe.

Verse 2

The public schools and the highways
are causing quite an alarm
Get a country boy educated just a little
and he won’t work on the farm

Verse 3

Now I don’t know but I believe I’m right
the auto’s ruined the country
Let’s get back to the horse and buggy
and try to save some money.

Verse 4

I know a man an evangelist
his tabernacle’s always full
The people come from miles around
just to hear him shoot the bull

Verse 5

You can talk about your evangelists
you can talk about Mr. Ford too
But Henry’s shaking more hell out of the folks
than all the evangelists do.