Big Country – Long Way Home (Guitar Live)

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[Intro] Am Am Am Am C F C D5 Am F C D5 C F C D5 Am F C D5 [Verse 1]

Am               C
Come on lay your hands on me

Dm               Am
Feel the will of God's TV

                C
I will save you every one

Dm                   Am
You will pay me when I'm done

        C
100,000 Jesus children

Dm                 F
All dressed up and no-one with them

Am                 C
Lead them not into temptation

Dm
With your tales of Hell's damnation

[Chorus]

C                 F    F/E Dm
Searching for the long way home

Am                F    C   Dm
Searching for the long way home

C                 F    F/E Dm
Searching for the long way home

Am                F    C   Dm
Searching for the long way home

[Verse 2]

Am           C
Out upon the China sea

Dm             Am
Boats will run eternally

                   C
Storms on land and storms assail

Dm                    Am
Captains roar and the women wail

                 C
A half a million Nixon babies

Dm                 F
Some with toys and some with rabies

Am            C
Hunted by the man in black

Dm               F
No room here man send them back

[Chorus]

C          F           F/E Dm
Searching for the long way home

Am         F           C   Dm
Searching for the long way home

C          F           F/E Dm
Searching for the long way home

Am         F           C   Dm
Searching for the long way home

[Instrumental] Am Am Am Am C F C D5 Am F C D5 C F C D5 Am F C D5 [Verse 3]

Am              C
Underneath your own safe sky

Dm            Am
You may never wonder why

                C
Some will never make their peace

Dm                   Am
Some have never been released

             C
Fires in the L.A. sky

Dm                    F
The truth ran out and justice died

Am                 C
You better arm the National Guard

Dm                 F
Cause final notice has been served

[Chorus]

C         F            F/E Dm
Searching for the long way home

Am        F            C   Dm
Searching for the long way home

C         F            F/E Dm
Searching for the long way home

Am        F            C   Dm
Searching for the long way home

[Instrumental] C F C D5 Am F C D5 Am F C D5 Am F C Dm [Chorus]

C                 F    F/E Dm
Searching for the long way home

Am                F    C   Dm
Searching for the long way home

C                 F    F/E Dm
Searching for the long way home

Am                F   C   Dm   Am   F
Searching for the long way home

         C   Am
The long way home

[Outro] Am Am Am Am Mark W