View Guitar Chords for Route 23 - chords ver. 1
[Intro] D F#m G A D [Verse]DWell I spent my whole life since I was Ghigh as a kneDe By thDat two-lane blacktop they call RAoute 23 My daDddy ran a service station And the pGumps they did shDine I'd waDtch him wash the windF#mshields, keep the olGd look to that mDind[Verse]Well the daDys they were long, but the mGoney was gDood The Donly things that changed were the seasons and the shAapes of the hoods 'Til the gDovernment came on the radio in lGate 'D55 Said the sDtate's gonna build a new hF#mighway One that's fGast, smooth and Dwide[Chorus]With that new hGighway, no one sBmtops here anyDmore AnDd you can't make liGving without swDinging that dAoor The sDign by the roadside still saGys "Come On IDn" But the bF#mulbs are long since burnt out, not to lGight up aDgain[Verse]Now daDddy was as stubborn as a mGule in the sDnow He said, "GDood folks return to the places that they kAnow" But after the Dgravel arrived and those stGeamrollers whDined All those gDood folks left me and F#mdaddy And those tGwo lanes behDind[Chorus]With that new hGighway, no one sBmtops here anyDmore AnDd you can't make liGving without swDinging that dAoor The sDign by the roadside still saGys "Come On IDn" But the bF#mulbs are long since burnt out, not to lGight up aDgain[Instrumental] D D F#m G G G A D [Verse]Now the cDalendar on the wall still reads 1G9 and D75 No one crDossed out the day that my daddy diAed We laDid him in the ground 'neath that old syGcamore tDree That shaDdes a boarded up gas sF#mtation... out on RGoute D23[Chorus]With that new hGighway, no one sBmtops here anyDmore AnDd you can't make liGving without swDinging that dAoor The sDign by the roadside still saGys "Come On IDn" But the bF#mulbs are long since burnt out, not to lGight up aDgainYeah, the bF#mulbs are long since burnt out, not to lGight up aDgain