Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

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   [Intro]
              
               
                         
           

           
           
           
              
          


   [Verse 1]
           
A long time ag

         
o came a man o

    
n a track
         
Walking thirty

              
 miles with a 

          
sack on his ba


ck
            
And he put dow

        
n his load  wh

             
ere he thought

            
 it was the be

st
            
He made a home

              
 in the wilder


ness
             
He built a cab

         
in and a winte

r store
         
And he ploughe

              
d up the groun

            
d by the cold 

     
lake shore
            
And the other 

             
travelers came

             
 walking down 

    
the track
            
And they never

              
 went further,

           
 and they neve

           
r went back
             
Then came the 

          
churches, then

 came the scho

ols
         
Then came the 

             
lawyers, and t

            
hen came the r


ules
            
Then came the 

             
trains and the

             
 trucks with t

     
heir loads
            
And the dirty 

              
old track was 

        
the telegraph 


road


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   [Verse 2]
             
Then came the 

       
mines, then ca

me the ore
         
Then there was

              
 the hard time

            
s, then there 

      
was a war
            
Telegraph sang

             
 a song about 

            
the world outs

ide
            
Telegraph road

        
 got so deep a

nd so wide
         
Like a rolling

 
 river


   [Solo]
                 
                    
                  
                   
                  
                       
           

          
             


   [Bridge]
       
And my radio s

ays tonight it

's gonna freez

e

People driving

 home from the

 factories

There's six la

nes of traffic
            
Three lanes mo

           
ving slow


   [Instrumental]
                       
                            
                    
                            
                    
                            
                              
                          
          

   [Verse 3]
        
I used to like

              
 to go to work

           
, but they shu

t it down
           
I've got a rig

            
ht to go to wo

              
rk, but there'

            
s no work here

       
 to be found
            
Yes, and they 

             
say we're gonn

             
a have to pay 

       
what's owed
            
We're gonna ha

              
ve to reap fro

       
m some seed th

at's been sowe

d
        
And the birds 

              
up on the wire

          
s and the tele

graph poles
         
They can alway

              
s fly away fro

            
m this rain an

       
d this cold
            
You can hear t

             
hem singing ou

             
t their telegr

    
aph code
        
All the way do

wn the telegra

ph road


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   [Verse 4]
             
You know, I'd 


sooner forget,

 but I remembe

r those nights
             
When life was 

              
just a bet on 

       
a race between

 the lights
            
You had your h

            
ead on my shou

              
lder, you had 

             
your hand in m

  
y 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 th

              
is darkness an

         
d into the day
            
From these riv

             
ers of headlig

             
hts, these riv

          
ers of rain
            
From the anger

             
 that lives on

             
 the streets w

             
ith these name

 
s
            
Cause I've run

             
 every red lig

            
ht on memory l

    
ane
            
I've seen desp

            
eration explod

             
e into flames
           
And I don't wa

            
nt to see it a

gain
            
From all of th

              
ese signs sayi

     
ng, "sorry, bu

t we're closed

"
            
All the way

       

      

Down the teleg

raph road


   [Outro]
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Mark W