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