This Old Road

Kris Kristofferson

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

G                            C            G
Look at that old photograph  is it really you
               C            G
Smiling like a baby full of dreams
                           C               G
Smiling ain't so easy now  some are comin' true
C                        D7
Nothing's a simple as it seems

Verse 2

C                                             G
But I guess you count your blessings with the problems
C                        D7
That you're dealing with today
C                        G
Like the changing of the seasons
                 C    G                     C    G
Ain't you come a long way (ain't you come a long way)
                 C        D7            G
Ain't you come a long way down this old road

Verse 3

                           C              G
Looking at a looking glass running out of time
C                     G
On a face you used to know
                        C              G
Traces of a future lost in between the lines
C                        D7
One more rainbow for the road

Verse 4

C                            G
Thinking of the faces in the window
C                         D7
That you passed along the way
C                              G
Or the last thing you believed in
                 C    G                     C    G
Ain't you come a long way (ain't you come a long way)
                 C        D7            G
Ain't you come a long way down this old road

Verse 5

C                             G
Say you tried to chase the sundown
C                   D7
And you let it slip away
C                     G
And the holy night is falling
                 C    G                     C    G
Ain't you come a long way (ain't you come a long way)
                 C        D7            G
Ain't you come a long way down this old road

Verse 6

                            C            G
Look at that old photograph is it really you