Dire Straits – Telegraph Road (Guitar)

  F                    Dm          
A long time ago came a man on a track

C                           Bb                  
walking thirty miles with a sack on his back

       Bb                  C        F                 C
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                              Bb          
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                          Gm7                 Bb
and they never went further and they never went back

F                       Dm 
Then came the churches then came the schools

C                     Bb                  
then came the lawyers then came the rules

Bb             C               F                C
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads

        Bb                                   (D5) 
and the dirty old track   was the telegraph road

F                     Dm
Then came the mines - then came the ore

C                             Bb                   
then there was the hard times then there was a war

Bb               C     F                 C
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside

Bb                    Gm7               Bb
telegraph road got so deep and so wide

Bb              (F)
like a rolling river. . .

D          Gm             Gm
   And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze

Dm                            Dm
People driving home from the factories

         C
There's six lanes of traffic

Am                     Dm      C   
   Three lanes moving slow. . .

| Dm | A7#5 A7 | Bb Em7b5 | C F | Gm C | Fsus4 F | Gm F/A | Bb    |
[Guitar solo]

| Dm | A7#5 A7 | Bb Em7b5 | C F | Gm C | Fsus4 F | Gm F/A | Bb A7 |
[Piano solo]

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

              Bb         C            F          C
Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed

       Bb                      Gm7                    Bb
We're gonna have to reap from seed that's been sowed

         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

        Bb         C                 F        C
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code

         Bb                        Dm   
all the way down the telegraph road

(D)            Dm                  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

              Bb          C                     F          C
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
From out of this darkness and into the day

            Bb             C            F         C    F  
From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain

         Bb                  C  F                  C     F
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names

            Bb                 C    F     C    F   
'Ccos I've run every red light on memory lane

      Bb             C   F            C      F  
I've seen desperation  explode into flames

Bb              C    F       C
   And I don't wanna see it again. . .

     Am                         Dm
From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed

         Bb   F              Bb                           
all the way                   down the telegraph road

| Dm | F   | G   | D | Dm | F C | G  | D | x13 
(Fade out)