Dire Straits – Telegraph Road (Guitar)

  F         Fadd9      Dm       Dm7
A long time ago came a man on a track

Cadd9                       Bb          Bbsus2
Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back

       Bb           Csus4 C        F                  C
And he put down his load  where he thought it was the best

Bb                          Gm7
He made a home in the wilderness

F                      Dm
He built a cabin and a winter store

       Cadd9                         Bb        Bbsus2
And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore

    Bb        C              F                C
And the other travelers came walking down the track

         Bb                           Gm7            Cadd9
And they never went further, and they never went back

F                       Dm
Then came the churches, then came the schools

Cadd9                      Bb            Bbsus2
Then came the lawyers, and then came the rules

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

        Bb                      Bbsus2    Bb
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road

F                    Dm
Then came the mines, then came the ore

Cadd9                          Bb               Bbsus2
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
Telegraph road got so deep and so wide

Cadd9          F
Like a rolling river

       Gm
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   Cadd9   C
Three lanes moving slow

Cadd9     F                            Dm
I used to like to go to work, but they shut it down

           Cadd9                               Bb              Bbsus2
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
We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed

Cadd9   F                             Dm
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles

         Cadd9                     Bb            Bbsus2
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
All the way down the telegraph road

D             G9sus4
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          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

    F                             Dm
But believe in me, baby, and I'll take you away

     Cadd9                    Bb       Bbsus2
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
Cause 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 want to see it again

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

        Bb    F  Fmaj7  F   Bb   C   Csus2
All the way

Bb
Down the telegraph road