Orphan of the Road Lyrics

G* = G in the 3rd position
Thumb plays everything on the beat and the half beat (1 & 2 & )
Fingers do everything else.
1 & 2 & 1 & 2 & 1 & 2 & 1 & 2 &
From a carnie show?
The black sheep...
From a carnie show and a rodeo
That shared a three day stand
A cowboy met a firey carnie queen
In new spring nights amid the lights
Of the painted carnie van
They laughed and loved and shared short lived dreams
But the carnie show and the rodeo
Went their separate ways
And the carnie season bloomed and soon moved on
And I was born on a winter morn
To the dark eyed carni queen
The too late son of something that was gone
The black sheep child that grew up wild
From the seed the four winds sowed
Unwanted son of ice and fire
An orphan of the road
I was still a child when my momma died
From a chill that closed her eyes
So I was left to grow up on my own
Without a name too wild to tame
No one cared to try
So mostly I was mostly left alone
In dingy bars and cold box cars
Hobo jungle camps
I joined the men who drift from town to town
The surging flood of restless blood
Flowed inside my veins
I'd never find the time to settle down
The black sheep child that grew up wild
From the seed the four winds sowed
Unwanted son of ice and fire
An orphan of the road
In the misty rain I caught the train
That slowed down through the town
And I pulled myself into the box car door
In a passing light in the deep grey night
I saw a still dark form
Of an old man lying sick upon the floor
And he said I tried to find her
But they told me she had died
And that she'd left an only son behind
And I tried to find him but I never did
And I know I could rest in peace
If I could just see him once before I died
I found a match and I quickly scratched it
Into flickering flame
Then I held it close and I gently raised his head
My mother sir I said of her
I have her same dark eyes
He smiled a cowboy smile and then was dead
The black sheep child that grew up wild
From the seed the four winds sowed
Unwanted son of ic and fire
An orphan of the road