Gordon Lightfoot – Borderstone (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Chords

[INTRO:] G [VERSE 1:]
                             C
The night is as black as the coal dust on the tracks 

          D            C   G
Up to the east, day is dawning 

                        C           Am     D
From time to time I get women on my mind 
I'm a son of a gun [CHORUS:]
C            G                 A                 D
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight 

C            G                         D             G
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight
[VERSE 2:]
                           C
The train that I'm on is a hundred boxcars long 

           D                    C   G
So I don't sleep through to the morning 

                                C           Am   D
That's some chilly wind in this gondola I'm in 
I wish I had a glass of beer [CHORUS:]
C            G                 A                 D
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight 

C            G                         D             G
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight

C            G                 A                 D
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight 

C            G                         D             G
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight
**Key Change - Up 2 Semitones** [INTERLUDE:] A D E A E [VERSE 3:]
    A                                  D
The forwarding house let me choose the thing no school can teach you 

     E                  D  A
I confess I've been out-fumbled 

                               D               Bm       E
The sound of the beans boiling through the evergreens
Sure do please a hungry man [CHORUS:]
D            A                 B                 E
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight 

D            A                         E             A
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight

D            A                 B                 E
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight 

D            A                         E             A          D
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight
[VERSE 4:]
    A                     D
The sound of the wheels rebounds across the fields 

      E            D  A
I'm a name with no number 

                      D                Bm     E
And so I guess I'd be drifting more or less 
Still it's not meant to be [CHORUS:]
D            A                 B                 E
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight 

D            A                         E             A
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight

D            A                 B                 E
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight 

D            A                         E             A
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight

D            A                 B                 E
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight 

D            A                         E             A
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight