[Intro]
   

[Chorus]
              
It's a lonesom

  
e feeling when

 you're travel

ing
              
Down a lonesom

              
e road down a 

         
lonesome road
            
Nobody cares a

         
 thing about m

e
             
It's a heavy l

             
oad, it's a he

    
avy load


[Verse]
          
I fell in love

 in Cincinnati
              
Her love was t

              
rue and she to

      
ld me so
            
I gave her rin

              
gs and all my 


money
              
Where she ran 

            
off to I'll ne

    
ver know


[Chorus]
              
It's a lonesom

  
e feeling when

 you're travel

ing
              
Down a lonesom

              
e road down a 

         
lonesome road
            
Nobody cares a

         
 thing about m

e
             
It's a heavy l

             
oad, it's a he

    
avy load


[Instrumental] 
   


[Verse]
            
I wish that I 

was in Kentuck

y
              
With papa and 

     
mama dear
            
But mama's gon

            
e and so is pa

pa
            
And Kentucky's

              
 a long way fr

   
om here


[Chorus]
              
It's a lonesom

  
e feeling when

 you're travel

ing
              
Down a lonesom

              
e road down a 

         
lonesome road
            
Nobody cares a

         
 thing about m

e
             
It's a heavy l

             
oad, it's a he

    
avy load
             
It's a heavy l

             
oad, it's a he

    
avy load