Ry Cooder

How Can You Keep On Moving Chords

How Can You Keep On Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)?
Ry Cooder
From the album "Into the Purple Valley" (1972)
Standard OR Open G with Capo V (which is how Ry plays it on his Sunburst Stratocaster)

    C                        F                C  
How can you keep on moving unless you migrate too
      C                             D                     G7
 They tell ya to keep on moving but migrate, you must not do
     C                              F            C 
 The only reason for moving and the reason why I roam
    C               G                        C 
 To move to a new location and find myself a home

|F F/C |F F/C |G G/D |G G/D |G   |C   |

  C                    F                              C
I can't go back to the homestead, the shack no longer stands
                   D                          G7
 They said I was uneeded, had no claim to the land
      C                   F                               C
 They said, "Come on, get moving, it's the only thing for you"
     C                G                         C
 But how can you keep moving unless you migrate too

 Slide guitar solo

    C                             F               C
Now if you pitch your little tent along the broad highway
     C                          D                G7
 The Board of Sanitation says, "Sorry, you can't stay"
      C                F                             C
 Come on, come on, get moving it's their everlasting cry
       C                          G                             C
 Can't stay, can't go back, can't migrate, so where the hell am I

    C                        F                C
How can you keep on moving unless you migrate too
      C                             D                     G7
 They tell ya to keep on moving but migrate, you must not do
     C               F                           C
 The only reason for moving and the reason why I roam
    C               G                        C
 To move to a new location and find myself a home

|F F/C |F F/C |G G/D |G G/D |G   |C   |