Telegraph Road by Dire Straits

Telegraph Road tab by Dire Straits

Guitar tabs

Tuning: Standard EBGDAE

Difficulty: advanced

TELEGRAPH ROAD

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 F          Dm
A long time ago came a man on a track
C              Bb         F
walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
    Bb        C    F           C7
and he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Bb            Gm7     Bb
he made a home in the wilderness
F     Dm
he built a cabin and a winter store
    C           Am   Bb       F
and he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
Bb      C        F        C
and the other travellers came riding down the track
     Bb         F/A   Gm7         Bb
and they never went further and they never went back
F           Dm
then came the churches then came the schools
C           Bb         F
then came the lawyers then came the rules
Bb      Csus4   C  F         C
then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
    Bb       Bb            Dm
and the dirty old track  was the telegraph road

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F           Dm
Then came the mines - then came the ore
C               Bb       Bb F
then there was the hard times then there was a  war
Bb        C   F         C7
telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Bb          Gm7
telegraph road got so deep and so wide
Bb       F
like a rolling river. . .

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D  D7/F# G
   And my radio says tonight it`s gonna freeze
Dm
people driving home from the factories
    C
there`s six lanes of traffic
Am           Dm
   three lanes moving slow. . .

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C      F              Dm
  I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
       C                 Bb
  I`ve got a right to go to work but there`s no work here to be found
  F      Bb          C   F     C7
  yes and they say we`re gonna have to pay what`s owed
     Bb           Gm7
  we`re gonna have to reap from seed that`s been sowed
Bb     F               Dm
  and the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
      C               Bb
  they can always fly away from this rain and this cold
           C7        F
  you can here them singing out their telegraph code
  C    Bb            Dm
  all the way down the telegraph road

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C        F           Dm
  You know I`d sooner forget but I remember those nights
    C               Bb
  when life was just a bet on a race between the lights
  F      Bb       C  F      C7
  you had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
    Bb                Gm7
  now you act a little colder like you don`t seem to care
Bb    F             Dm
  but believe in me baby and I`ll take you away
    C            Bb
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            C        F       C
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  from the anger that lives on the streets with these names
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    Bb        C7 F     C   F/A
  I`ve seen desperation explode into flames
Bb       C7   F    C
  and I don`t want to see it again. . .

    Am            Dm
  From all of these signs saying sorry but we`re closed
      Bb
  all the way

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