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Song title:       Road To Nowhere
Original Album:	  Little Creatures

Words and Music by David Byrne, Chris Frantz,
                     Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth

Copyright © 1986 Warner Brothers Music Limited
Published by Warner Brothers Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Notes:
White gospel choir intro. Sung "a capella".

If you're a solo acoustic guitar, and you don't fancy impersonating a choir,
you might instead sing and arpeggiate the chords I indicate in [].

Chords:
G   320033    D#   xx0343
D   xx0232    F    x33211
C   x32010


        |[G]              |[D]          |[C]                    |[G]
Well, we  know where we're  going but we  don’t know where we’ve  been.

      |[G]             |[D]            |[C]                  |[D# - D]
And we  know what we’re  knowing but we  can’t say what we’ve  see__een.

         |[G]        |[D]             |[C]          |[D# - F]
And we’re  not little  children and we  know what we  wa___ant.

       |[G]       |[D]             |[C]             |[D# - D]
And the  future is  certain, give us time to work it  ou___out.



VAMP:
Chords:
E   022100


[play: 4/4| E | % | % | % |]



CHORUS1:
Chords:
E    022100
C#m  x46654


| E                              | C#m
    We’re on the road to nowhere,      come on inside.

| E                             | C#m
    Taking that ride to nowhere,       we’ll take that ride.



VERSE1:
Chords:
A   x02220
E   022100
B   x24442


| A                             | E        | B
    I’m feeling OK this morning,    and you  know

| A                           | E            | B          | E | % | % | %
    We’re on the road to para - dise, here we  go, here we  go.



[repeat CHORUS1]



VERSE2:
Chords:
A   x02220
E   022100
B   x24442


| A                           | E           | B
    Maybe you wonder where you  are. I don’t  care

| A                             | E             | B              | E | % | % | %
    Here is where time is on our  side, take you  there, take you  there.



CHORUS2:
Chords:
E    022100
C#m  x46654


| E             | %               | C#m
    We’re on the  road to nowhere,  Ha! Ha!

| E             | %               | C#m
    We’re on the  road to nowhere,  Ha! Ha!

| E             | %               | C#m
    We’re on the  road to nowhere,  Ha! Ha!



BRIDGE:
Chords:
E    022100
C#m  x46654


         | E                       | %
There's a  city in my mind, come a - long and take that ride

            | C#m                  | %
And it's al - right. Baby, it's al - right

        | E                     | %
And it's  very far away but it's  growing day by day

            | C#m                  | %
And it's al - right. Baby, it's al - right

        | E                              | %
They can  tell you what to do but they'll  make a fool of you

              | C#m                  | %
Well, it's al - right. Baby, it's al - right




         | E                       | %
There's a  city in my mind, come a - long and take that ride

            | C#m                  | %
And it's al - right. Baby, it's al - right

        | E                     | %
And it's  very far away but it's  growing day by day

            | C#m                  | %
And it's al - right. Baby, it's al - right

         | E                          | %
Would you  like to come along, you can  help me sing this song
(We're on the road to nowhere)

            | C#m                  | %
And it's al - right. Baby, it's al - right

        | E                              | %
They can  tell you what to do but they'll  make a fool of you
(We're on the road to nowhere)

              | C#m                  | %
Well, it's al - right. Baby, it's al - right



[repeat CHORUS2]



ENDING:
Notes:
Sung a cappella. (Same suggestion as INTRO.)

Chords:
E   022100


|[E]
     We're on the road to nowhere