Key: C
Introduction: C G F C G
C G
Big yellow moon, dark blue sky
F G F G
Lighting up the mighty Mississippi
C G
I'm headed home, I can't decide
F G F G
If my heart is just too full or just too empty
F C G
Through the thousands of miles of the rivers and hills
F C G F
And the highways I've come to know so well
C G
I always knew I could fall back on you
C F G
Now it wouldn't matter which way I fell
C G
Still, it's nice to keep moving, down the dotted line
F G F G
Past the tractors in their amber waves of grain
C G
If I keep my eyes open, take a little time
Dm F G
No two towns will ever look the same
F Em G
I get a little local Polka show
F C G
And folks are friendly everywhere I go
C F
Drank too much in Dayton, paid the whole next day
C Em G
The snow in South Dakota was so dry it blew away
C F
And it's not like someone's waiting when I get home anyway
C G
So, I leave for Portland pretty soon, then down through Monterey
C G F Dm
But right now this big old yellow moon is filling up the sky
F G
And lighting up the mighty Mississippi