I Ain't Been Anywhere Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]I w[Fm]as si[Em]ttin[D]' at home just
a-listenin' to to my radio
An' along came a fella who
apparently had been on the go
Well, he [G]started in a-braggin' 'bout
'bout ev'rywhere he'd been
And there [D]isn't any place in this whole
world he hasn't seen
You [A]ask me where I've been,
an' I'm a-going to to tell you, Pard
Why, I ain't [D]even been outside
the gate in my backyard

[Verse 2]
I ain't been [D]anywhere, Joe
I ain't been anywhere, Joe
I [G]didn't want to go, so
I [D]guess I'll never know, Joe
[A]An old stick in the mud, Bud
I ain't been any[D]where

[Verse 3]
I ain't seen [D]London, Paris,
Washington, Chicago,
Bombay, Mandalay, Calgary,
Cashmere,
[G]Thailand, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland,
[D]Halifax, Poland, Switzerland,
Scotland,
[A]Liverpool, Dry Gulch,
Tombstone, Moscow,
[D]Carlsbad, Leningrad,

[Verse 4]
Stalingrad, too bad!
[D]I ain't been anywhere, Joe
I ain't been anywhere, Joe
I [G]didn't want to go, so
I [D]guess I'll never know, Joe
An [A]old stick in the mud, Bud
I ain't been any[D]where[Eb]

[Verse 5]
[Eb]Siam, Amsterdam, Oslo,
Rotterdam,
Birmingham, Tokyo,
Melbourne, Saigon,
[Ab]Trinidad, Hong Kong, Florida,
Reykjavik,
[Eb]Copenhagen, Berlin, Congo,
Key West,
[Bb]Petersburg, Wallisburg, Cherbourg,
Luxemburg,
[Eb]Chalush, Toronto, Cripple Creek,

[Verse 6]
I am sick!
[Eb]I ain't been anywhere, Joe
I ain't been anywhere, Joe
I [Ab]didn't want to go, so
I [Eb]guess I'll never know, Joe
An [Bb]old stick in the mud, Bud
I ain't been any[Eb]where
[E]

[Verse 7]
Kumquat, Limerick, Inverness,
Loch Ness,
Swansea, Cuanda, Colombo, Gold Coast,
[A]Ed inburgh, Singapore,
Galveston, Ok[E]inawa,
Blarney, Killarney, Karachi,
Py[B]ongyang,
Warsaw, Tarancan, Down, Libya,
[E]Goose Bay, Labrador, Outer Space,

[Verse 8]
no place!
[E]I ain't been anywhere, Joe
I ain't been anywhere, Joe
[A]I didn't want to go, so
I [E]guess I'll never know, Joe
An [B]old stick in the mud, Bud
I ain't been any[E]where[F]

[Verse 9]
[F]Ohio, Toledo, Wexford, Frankfurt,
Silverton, Norfolk, Alamo, Sabu[Bb]la,
Brighton, Kiowa, Denmark, Dover,
[F]Chalis, Rio, Lima, Philippines,
[C]Hebrides, Hawaii, Portland, Cleveland,
[F]Leipzig, Laramie, Horsehair,

[Verse 10]
nowhere!
[F]I ain't been anywhere, Joe
I ain't been anywhere, Joe
I [Bb]didn't want to go, so
I guess [F]I'll never know, Joe
An [C]old stick in the mud, Bud
I ain't been any[F]where

[Verse 11]
Wait a minute! Horsehair!
Why, doggone it, that's
my hometown
So I guess I must 'a' been
there, huh?

[Verse 12]
I ain't been any[F]where!