Em (x2)
             Em
     On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha
                  D2
     You can listen to the engine moaning out it's one lone song
                  A2                                                                                             Em
     You can think about your woman, or the girl you knew the night before

     But your thoughts will soon be wandering the way they always do
     When you're riding sixteen hours and there's nothing much to do
     And you don't feel much like riding, you just wish the trip was through

                                               D2            Em
                            Say, here I am on the road again
                                         D2                  Em
                            There I am up on the stage
                                       D2              A2
                            Here I go playing star again
                                         C   D2           Em
                            There I go - turn the page
                                                                           Em

     Well you walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road
     You can feel the eyes upon you as you're shaking off the cold
     You pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to explode

     Most times you can't hear em talk, other times you can
     All the same old cliches - is that a woman or a man?
     And you always seem out-numbered - you don't dare make a stand

                            Here I am on the road again
                            There I am up on the stage
                            Here I go playing star again
                            There I go - turn the page

     Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away
     Every ounce of energy, you try and give away
     As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play

     Later in the evening as you lay awake in bed
     With the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head
     You smoke the days last cigarette, remembering what she said

                            Here I am on the road again
                            There I am up on the stage
                            Here I go playing star again
                            There I go - turn the page

                            Here I am on the road again
                            There I am up on the stage
                            Here I go playing star again
                                         C
                            There I go
                         D2                    Em
                            There I go...

                                                           (fade on mournful note)