Song Name: | Telegraph Road | By: | Dire Straits |
Posted By: | TIN_MAN | Difficulty: | Any |
Key: | F | Genre: | Rock |
Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
Created: | 2009-03-01 18:03:14 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
Song: | TELEGRAPH ROAD DIRE STRAITS
KEY F 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 A long time a-go came a man on a track -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 4 4 Walk-ing thir-ty miles with a sack on his back 4 4 4 4 5 -4 4 And he put down his load where 4 5 5 -4 4 he thought it was best -5b 4 4 4 4 4 4 -4 -4 4 And he made a home in the wil-der-ness 4 5 5 5 -4 -4 5 -4 4 4 He built a ca-bin and a win-ter store 4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 And he ploughed up the ground by 5 -4 4 4 the cold lake shore 4 4 4 4 5 -4 -4 And the oth-er tra-vel-lers -4 5 5 -4 4 -4 came rid-ing down the track 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 And they nev-er went fur-ther, 4 4 -4 -4 -4 4 and they nev-er went back 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 Then came the church-es then came the schools -4 -4 -4 -4 4 -4 5 4 5 Then came the law-yers then came the rules 4 -4 5 -4 4 -4 5 -5b -5b 5 Then came the trains & the trucks with their load 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 And the dir-ty old track was the te-le-graph road VERSE 2 Then came the mines - then came the ore Then there was the hard times then there was a war Telegraph sang a song about the world outside Telegraph road got so deep and so wide Like a rolling river. . . VERSE 3 5 5 -5b 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 And my ra-di-o says to-night it's gon-na freeze 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 Peo-ple driv-ing home from the fac-tor-ies 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 There's six lanes of traf-fic 4 4 4 4 4 Three lanes mov-ing slow. . . I used to like to go to work 4 4 but they shut it down 5 5 -5b 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 I�ve got a right to go to work -4 -4 -4 -4 4 4 4 4 But there's no work here to be found 5 -4 -4 4 Yes and they say we're gon-na -4 5 6 5 -4 have to pay what's owed 5 -5b 5 -5b 4 -5b -5b -5b We're gon-na have to reap from some 4 4 6 4 seed that's been sowed 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 And the birds up on the wires 5 5 5 5 5 5 and the tel-e-graph poles 5 5 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 They can al-ways fly a-way from this -4 4 4 4 rain and this cold -4 5 -5b -5b -5b -5b -4 You can hear them sing-ing out -4 5 5 5 -4 their tel-e-graph code 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 All the way down the tel-e-graph road VERSE 4 You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights When life was just a bet on a race between the lights You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care But believe in me baby and I'll take you away From out of this darkness and into the day VERSE 5 -4 5 -5b -5b -5b -5b -4 From these riv-ers of head-lights -4 5 -5b 5 -4 these riv-ers of rain 5 5 -5b -5b -5b -5b 5 -4 From the an-ger that lives on the 5 -5b 5 -4 streets with these names 5 -5b -5b -5b -5b -5b 5 -4 5 -5b 6 5 'cos I've run ev-ry red light on mem-o-ry lane 5 -5b -5b -5b -5b 5 -4 6 -5b 5 -4 I've seen des-pe-ra-tion ex-plode in-to flames -5b -5b -5b 5 -4 6 5 -5b -4 And I don't want to see it a-gain 4 5 5 5 5 -4 -4 -4 4 From all of these signs say-ing sor-ry 4 4 4 but we're closed 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 All the way down the tel-e-graph road |