Telegraph Road

TELEGRAPH ROAD             DIRE STRAITS


KEY F

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A long time a-go came a man on a track

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Walk-ing thir-ty miles with a sack on his back

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And he put down his load where 

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he thought it was best

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And he made a home in the wil-der-ness

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He built a ca-bin and a win-ter store

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And he ploughed up the ground by 

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the cold lake shore

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And the oth-er tra-vel-lers 

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came rid-ing down the track

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And they nev-er went fur-ther, 

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and they nev-er went back

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Then came the church-es then came the schools

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Then came the law-yers then came the rules

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Then came the trains & the trucks with their load

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And the dir-ty old track was the te-le-graph road


VERSE 2

Then came the mines - then came the ore
Then there was the hard times then there was a war
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
Like a rolling river. . .


VERSE 3


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And my ra-di-o says to-night it's gon-na freeze

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Peo-ple driv-ing home from the fac-tor-ies

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There's six lanes of traf-fic

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Three lanes mov-ing slow. . .

                              
I used to like to go to work 

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but they shut it down


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I’ve got a right to go to work 

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But there's no work here to be found

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Yes and they say we're gon-na 

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have to pay what's owed

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We're gon-na have to reap from some 

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seed that's been sowed

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And the birds up on the wires 

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and the tel-e-graph poles

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They can al-ways fly a-way from this 

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rain and this cold

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You can hear them sing-ing out 

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their tel-e-graph code

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All the way down the tel-e-graph road

VERSE 4


You know I'd sooner forget but I remember 
those nights
When life was just a bet on a race between 
the lights
You had your head on my shoulder you 
had your hand in my hair
Now you act a little colder like you 
don't seem to care
But believe in me baby and I'll take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day

VERSE 5

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From these riv-ers of head-lights 

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these riv-ers of rain

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From the an-ger that lives on the 

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streets with these names

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'cos I've run ev-ry red light on mem-o-ry lane

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I've seen des-pe-ra-tion ex-plode in-to flames

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And I don't want to see it a-gain

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From all of these signs say-ing sor-ry 

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but we're closed

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All the way down the tel-e-graph road