Bruce Cockburn – Silver Wheels (Guitar)

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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