Gm / Bb Gm / - Dm / - C / Am Bb/D / Dm7 / G/D D / Dm7 C/D / G/D D / Dm7 G/D / D Dm / F C G / D D7 / Gm C F Dm A long time ago came a man on a track C Bb F walking thirty miles with a sack on his back Bb C F C7 and he put down his load where he thought it was the best Bb Gm7 Bb he made a home in the wilderness F Dm he built a cabin and a winter store C Am Bb F and he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore Bb C F C and the other travellers came riding down the track Bb F/A Gm7 Bb and they never went further and they never went back F Dm then came the churches then came the schools C Bb F then came the lawyers then came the rules Bb Csus4 C F C then came the trains and the trucks with their loads Bb Bb Dm and the dirty old track was the telegraph road F Dm Then came the mines - then came the ore C Bb Bb F then there was the hard times then there was a war Bb C F C7 telegraph sang a song about the world outside Bb Gm7 telegraph road got so deep and so wide Bb F like a rolling river. . . Dm / C Am Bb F / Bb C F C / Bb F/A Gm7 / Bb F / Dm C / Bb F Bb Csus4 C / F C Bb / Bb Gm7 Bb / F Dm / C Bb F/A / Bb C F C / Bb Bb / Dm Dm7 / G D / Dm C F C / G D D7/F# G And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze Dm people driving home from the factories C there's six lanes of traffic Am Dm three lanes moving slow. . . Dm7/C / Dm A7+ A7 / Bb C7/E Fsus9 F/C / Gm7 C7 C7/Bb Fsus4 F / Gm F/A Bb A / Dm A7+ A / Bb Gm6/E C9 F / Gm C7/Bb Fsus4 F / Gm F/A Bb A / Dm A7+ A / Bb C7/E C7 F / Gm7 C7 Fsus4 F / Gm Am Bb A7-9/ Dm A/D / Bb/D C/E Fsus4 F / Bb/F C7/F Bb/F F / Gm7 F/A Bb A7 / D C F Dm I used to like to go to work but they shut it down C Bb I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found F Bb C F C7 yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed Bb Gm7 we're gonna have to reap from seed that's been sowed Bb F Dm and the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles C Bb they can always fly away from this rain and this cold C7 F you can here them singing out their telegraph code C Bb Dm all the way down the telegraph road Dm7 / G D / Dm Dm7 / G D / Dm Dm7 / G7/D D / Dm Bb C / Dm C F Dm You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights C Bb when life was just a bet on a race between the lights F Bb C F C7 you had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair Bb Gm7 now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care Bb F Dm but believe in me baby and I'll take you away C Bb from out of this darkness and into the day C F C from these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain F/A Bb C7 F C from the anger that lives on the streets with these names F/A Bb C7 F F/A 'cos I've run every red light on memory lane Bb C7 F C F/A I've seen desperation explode into flames Bb C7 F C and I don't want to see it again. . . Am Dm From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed Bb all the way C/E / Bb Gm/D / F/A C/G Bb/F F/E / Bb/D F/C Gm/Bb Dm down the telegraph road Dm7 / G7/D D / Dm Dm7 / G/D D / Dm Dm7 / G D / Dm F / G D / Dm Dm / G/D D / Dm7 F C / G Dm7 / Dm7 Dm7 / G7sus4/D G7/D D / Dm7 C / G D /Dm7 Dm7 / G7sus4/D G7/D D / Dm7 C / G D /Dm7 Dm7 / G7sus4/D G7/D D / Dm7 C / G Dm7 Em Dm / (rpt ad lib to fade) Dm7 / F G / D