Guitar Pickers: Do I Have The Correct Chords For "Gotta Travel On"?

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#1

It starts off, “Done laid around, done stayed around this old town to long…”, just to give you a reference. (It’s an old Bob Dylan song off Self Portrait).

Without giving you the whole shebang, I am playing it in D, and the progression is D, D7, G, D, D7, G, A7, D, but I must not be changing correctly or I transposed it wrong because I sound like shit when trying to sing it, and it’s an easy song and I sing it a cappella in my car a lot.

It’s on GOOGLE in A, but I can’t find A in my voice register, so I used a transposing tool on the net and it transposed it to D with the above progression.

I would appreciate some guidance from one of you more experienced pickers, because I love the song and sure would like to add it to my repertoire if I could.

Thanks so much!

Quasi

#2

I don’t know the song, and I don’t know where you found your progression, but I did my own Google search (I’m not sure if I’m allowed to link to it, so let’s just say I searched for Dylan “gotta travel on” tabs and the result was somewhere on the first page), and it came out as followed:

A D A F#m

#3

I’m an idiot.

So to resume, progression as I found it:

A D A F#m C D A C D A for what I assume is the chorus (the one that starts with done laid around…)
A D A F#m D A for what I assume is the verse.

Transposed to D, that would be

D G D Bm F G D F G D for chorus
D G D Bm G D for verse;

which is somewhat different from the version you found. Maybe this version is more correct than yours, but again, since I don’t know the song, I can’t tell. Also, maybe the 7ths from your version play a part in it, so try it out. Let me know if it works out.

#4

Hm. It seems the hamsters automatically remove excess spaces between words: I had conveniently “grouped” to chords into phrases. Ah well.

#5

Hm. It seems the hamsters automatically remove excess spaces between words: I had conveniently “grouped” the chords into phrases. Ah well.