Gary Allan - Highway Junkie (with picking pattern)

By axehappy - axehappy at countrytabs.com

Tune low E string to D.


D     =   000232                               G     =   5x0003

A     =   x02220

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D                   
A hundred cups of coffee, five hundred cigarettes.
                                                    
A thousand miles of highway, and I ain't forgot her yet,
              G
But I keep on movin'.
                       D
I keep movin' down the line.

There ain't nothing in my mirror, just a cloud of dust and smoke.
                                                         G
What do you expect when some old trucker's heart gets broke?
                          D
Yeah, truckers hearts get broke.
         A                    
But them big wheels of rubber gonna rub her off my mind,
     G                                               D
Well I'm a highway junkie, and I need that old white line.


D
Ten miles outta Nashville, I was doin' a hundred and one,
                                                      G
State boy pulled me over he said, "Where's the fire son?"
                       D
Said, where's the fire son?
         
I said, "Man there ain't no fire, I'm just runnin' from a flame,
                                                           G
So go on, write your ticket man, but I ain't the one to blame."
                                  D
That county judge tried to rob me blind.
         A                 
But them big wheels of rubber gonna rub her off my mind,
     G                                              D
Well I'm a highway junkie and I need that old white line.


D   G   D   A   G   D
INSTRUMENTAL


D
So I rolled on down to Memphis, I had nothing left to lose,
                                                              G
I wanted to hear some rock n' roll but all they played was blues.
                       D
I didn't wanna hear no blues.

So I went to call up Elvis, but Roger Miller grabbed the phone,
                                                            G
He said "Drop that 18 wheeler boy, you're the king of the road."
                            D
Said, I was the king of the road.
         A                   
But them big wheels of rubber gonna rub her off my mind,
     G                                              D
Well I'm a highway junkie and I need that old white line.
     A                               G                   D
Said I'm a highway junkie man, and I need that old white line.


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PICKING PATTERNS FOR FIRST VERSE


   D (repeat as necessary)

E---2-2---2-2--2-2----2--2-2---2-2--2-2-------|
D--3-3---3-3--3-3----3--3-3---3-3--3-3-------|
G---2-2---2-2--2-2----2--2-2---2-2--2-2-------|
D------------0---3p0---0----------0----------|
A------0h3-----------3------0h3--------3p0----|
D-0--------------------------------------3b--|


   G    
   
E---3--3-3-3---3--3-3-3---3--3-3-3---3--3-3----|
D--0--0-0-0---0--0-0-0---0--0-0-0---0--0-0----|
G---0--0-0-0---0--0-0-0---0--0-0-0---0--0-0----|
D--0--0-0-0---0--0-0-0---0--0-0-0---0--0-0----|
A----------------------------------------------|
D-3----------3----------3----------3------3b--|


   A 

E---0--0-0-0---0--0-0-0---0--0-0-0---0--0-0---|
D--2--2-2-2---2--2-2-2---2--2-2-2---2--2-2---|
G---2--2-2-2---2--2-2-2---2--2-2-2---2--2-2---|
D--2--2-2-2---2--2-2-2---2--2-2-2---2--2-2---|
A--0----------0----------0----------0------0--|
D--------------------------------------------|