Jethro Tull – Journeyman (Guitar)

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from “Heavy Horses” (1978)
[Intro]
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B|---------------------------------|
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D|-0h2---------2---0h2-----------0-|x4
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E|-----0---------------0---2-------|
[Verse 1]
Em
Spine-tingling railway sleepers

G             A5         C          Em
Sleepy houses lying four-square and firm

Em
Orange beams divide the darkness

G               A5       C      Em
Rumbling fit to turn the waking worm

Am
Sliding through Victorian tunnels

Am               C     D        Em
Where green moss oozes from the pores

     Am
Dull echoes from the wet embankments

Am            G               B    Em
Battlefield allotments, fresh open sores
[Verse 2]
Em
In late night commuter madness

G                   A5        C      Em
Double-locked black briefcase on the floor

Em
Like a faithful dog with master

G               A5                 C        Em
Sleeping in the draught beside the carriage door

        Am
To each Journeyman his own home-coming

Am          C            D            Em
Cold supper nearing with each station stop

Am
Frosty flakes on empty platforms

Am       G                 B     Em
Fireside slippers waiting, flip, flop
[Chorus 1]
B                    A           B       A
Journeyman night-tripping on the late fantastic

B                A          B              A Dsus2
Too late to stop for tea at Gerard's Cross

Em
And hear the soft shoes on the footbridge shuffle

       G           A5            C        Em
As the wheels turn biting on the midnight frost
[Verse 3]
Em
On the late commuter special

G                    A5       C        Em
Carriage lights that flicker, fade and die

Em
Howling into hollow blackness

G            A5          C    Em
Dusky diesel shudders in full cry

Am
Down redundant morning papers

Am      C          D      Em
Abandon crosswords with a cough

Am
Stationmaster in his wisdom

Am                 G        B       Em
Told the guards to turn the heating off
[Chorus 2]
B                    A           B       A
Journeyman night-tripping on the late fantastic

B                A          B              A Dsus2
Too late to stop for tea at Gerard's Cross

Em
And hear the soft shoes on the footbridge shuffle

       G           A5            C        Em
As the wheels turn biting on the midnight frost
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