Name: Carry the Load
Duration: P00H02M30S
Description: Written in the throes of a Waylon/Merle bender.

Carry the Load

from If You See Her by John Holk & The Sequins

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I once was lost but now am found.

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Written in the throes of a Waylon/Merle bender.

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Carry The Load (D)
John Holkeboer

Verse 1 (Guitar and voice)

D / D / G / D /
Old Man says don't hurry, don't get aboard that surrey
G / D / E / A /
don't try to hide that look of surprise - don't try to tell me not to worry
D / D / G / D /
Put some money in your pocket, don't travel that lonesome road
G / D / A / D /
Everyone's glad when you pick up the tab, you gotta help them carry the load

Chorus

G / G / D / D /
Surprise Surprise - the look in your eyes - told me all I need to know
D / D / E / A /
Some folks think you can just get by - going through life as a one-man show
D / D / G / D /
Put some money in your pocket, don't travel that lonesome road
G / D / A / D /
Everyone's glad when you pick up the tab, you gotta help them carry the load

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Verse 2:
Once I was a loner, I rambled from town to town
Some folks let me into their homes, others saw a man that wouldn't settle down
I don't know what's better, but I know something worse
To live all alone with no one to call your own, is just another kind of curse

Repeat Chorus + vocal tag & instrumental tag & out

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from If You See Her, track released November 16, 2010
John Holk: vocals, 6 & 12-string acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass, banjo, tambourine.
John Lang: pedal steel guitar
Todd Glass: drums

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John Holk & the Sequins Ann Arbor, Michigan

John Holk writes original songs in the honky tonk, power pop, jangle-psych vein. He is a native of Ann Arbor, MI.

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