Tuning: E A D G B E

Further Up The Road:Bobby Bland. #1 R&B in 1957. #1.

^G#Further on up the road..someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me. Further on up the ^C#road..someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt ^G#me. Further on up the ^D#road..baby, you just wait and ^G#see.^D#

#2.

^D#You got to reap just what you ^G#sow. ^G#That old saying is true. You got to reap just what you ^C#sow. That old saying is ^G#true. Like you mistreat ^D#someone..someone's gonna mistreat ^G#you. ^D#

#3.

^D#Now you're laughing, pretty ^G#baby..someday, you're gonna be crying. Now you're laughing, pretty ^C#baby..someday, you're gonna be ^G#crying. Further on up the ^D#road..you found out I wasn't ^G#lying.

(INTERLUDE:) #4.

^D#Further on up the ^G#road..when you're all alone and blue. Further on up the ^C#road..when you're all alone and ^G#blue. ^G#You're gonna ask me to take you ^D#back, baby..but I'll have somebody ^G#new. ^D#

OUTRO:

^D#Mmm, baby..further on up the ^G#road. ^G#Mmm, baby..further on up the road..(Fade.)

A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.

Bobby "Blue" Bland - Further up the road