Bruce Cockburn – Silver Wheels (Guitar)
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar Tab
Guitar
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
[Intro]
Am7 G
Am7 G
Am7 G
Am7 G
[Verse 1]
Am7 High speed drift on a prairie road G Hot tires sing like a string being bowed Am7 Sudden town rears up then explodes G Fragments resolve into white line code Am7 G Am7 G Whirl on silver wheels
Am7 G
[Verse 2]
Am7 Black earth energy receptor fields G Undulate under a grey cloud shield Am7 We outrun a river color brick red mud G That cleaves apart hills soil rich as blood Am7 G Am7 G Whirl on silver wheels
Am7 G
[Verse 3]
Am7 Highway squeeze in construction steam G Stop caution hard hat yellow insect machines Am7 Silver steel towers stalk rolling land G Toward distant stacks that shout feed on demand Am7 G Am7 G Whirl on silver wheels Am7 G Am7 B Whirl on silver wheels
[Break]
Dbm7 Gbm7 Gbm
Bm7 Bm F
E
[Verse 4]
Am7 One hundred miles later the sky has changed G Urban anticipation, we get four lanes Am7 Red orange furnace sphere notches down
AG
Throws up silhouette skyline in brown
Am7 G Am7 G Whirl on silver wheels
Am7 G
[Verse 5]
Am7 Sun dogs flare on windshield glass G Sudden swoop skyward iron horse overpass Am7 Pass a man walking like the man on the moon G Walking like his heads full of Irish fiddle tunes Am7 G Am7 G Whirl on silver wheels
Am7 G
[Verse 6]
Am7 The skin around every city looks the same G Miles of flat neon selling well-known names Am7 Used cars, dirty doughnuts, you you’re the one G Fat wheeled cars squeal into the suns.
[Chorus]
Am7 G Am7 G Whirl on silver wheels Am7 G Am7 G Whirl on silver wheels
Am7 G
[Verse 7]
Am7 Radio speaker garbles top-40 trash G Musak sound track a slow collapse Am7 Planet engine pulsates in sidereal time G If you listen close you can hear the whine Am7 G Am7 G Whirl on silver wheels Am7 G Am7 G Whirl on silver wheels Am7 G Am7 B Whirl on silver wheels
[Outro]
Dbm7 Gbm7 Gbm
Bm7 Bm F
E
Am7 G
Am7 G
Am7 G
Am7 G