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Going Down the Road Feeling Bad

from The Kitchen Chorus Songbook by Spencer Jo & Joseph Barley

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This song is also known as “Lonesome Road Blues” or “Ain’t Going To Be Treated This Way” and was originally recorded back in 1924. Woody Guthrie acquired the melody and many of the verses while adding his own to make it a standard migrant traveling song of the dust bowl era.

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G
I’m going down the road feeling bad
C G
I’m going down the road feeling bad
C G
I’m going down the road feeling bad
D D7 G
Oh lord, and I ain’t going to be treated this a-way

I’m going where the water taste like wine
Oh lord, and I ain’t going to be treated this a-way

Your two dollar shoe hurts my feet
Oh lord, and I ain’t going to be treated this a-way

Takes a ten dollar shoe to fit my feet
Oh lord, and I ain’t going to be treated this a-way

They fed me on cornbread and beans
Oh lord, and I ain’t going to be treated this a-way

I’m going down the road feeling
Oh lord, and I ain’t going to be treated this a-way

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from The Kitchen Chorus Songbook, released November 9, 2011

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Joe Vickers Drumheller, Alberta

Farmer by day, troubadour by night, Joe Vickers has logged countless miles on both his combine and tour van. His music explores the human spirit singing of the triumphs and tragedies of everyday life on the prairies.

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