Emmylou Harris – Stranger Song (Guitar)

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It's true that all the men you knew were dealers

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Who said they were through with dealing

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Every time you gave them shelter

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I know that kind of man

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It's hard to hold the hand of anyone

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Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender,

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Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.

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And  sweeping up the jokers that he left behind

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You find he did not leave you very much

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Not even laughter

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Like any dealer he was watching for the card

                    E
That is so high and wild

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He'll never need to deal another

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He was just some Joseph looking for a manger

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He was just some Joseph looking for a manger

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And then leaning on your window sill

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He'll say one day you caused his will

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To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter

E
And  taking from his wallet

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An old schedule of trains, he'll say

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I told you when I came I was a stranger

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I told you when I came I was a stranger

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But now another stranger seems

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To want you to ignore his dreams

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As though they were the burden of some other

E
O you've seen that man before

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His golden arm dispatching cards

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But now it's rusted from the elbows to the finger

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And he wants to trade the game he plays for shelter

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Yes he wants to trade the game he knows for shelter.

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I hate to watch another tired man

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Lay down his hand

    E
And while he talks his dreams to sleep

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You notice there's a highway

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That is curling up like smoke above his shoulder.

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It is curling just like smoke above his shoulder.

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You tell him to come in sit down

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But something makes you turn around

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The door is open you can't close your shelter

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You try the handle of the road

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It opens do not be afraid

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It's you my love, you who are the stranger

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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.

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Well, I've been waiting, I was sure

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We'd meet between the trains we're waiting for

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I think it's time to board another

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Please understand, I never had a secret chart

                 E
To get me to the heart of this

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Or any other matter

        E
When he talks like this

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You don't know what he's after

        E
When he speaks like this,

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You don't care what he's after.

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Let's meet tomorrow if you choose

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Upon the shore, beneath the bridge

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that they are building on some endless river

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Then he leaves the platform

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For the sleeping car that's warm

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You realize, he's only advertising one more shelter

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And it comes to you, he never was a stranger

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And you say ok the bridge or someplace later.

         D               G      D       A
And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind

    Asus A           E
You find he did not leave you very much

         F#m
Not even laughter

E                               F#m
Like any dealer he was watching for the card

                    E
That is so high and wild

                         F#m
He'll never need to deal another

E                                     F#m
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger

       E                              F#m   E  Esus F#m
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger