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Tales Of The Road by Justin Sullivan
Tales Of The Road
Capo:no capo
Original: capo at 2nd fret (all chords relative)
Best served with lots of harmonica, this version is simplified, the original uses some 5 chords
Em D
The caravan flipped over two, three times went spinning down the carriageway
Em D Em
Breaking up into splinters wheels spinning around in the dust at the foot of the hill
Em D
And all the old clothes, the pots and pans and the photographs
Em D
The little things of those people's lives strewn across the road
Chorus:
G D Em
We all want what we cannot have
G D Em
We've driven so far, we can never get back
G D Bm
Sitting in the all-night cafe in a curl of smoke
C
Telling tales of the road
Em D
By the glow of a flickering lighter we went stumbling forward through the corridor
Em D
Up the broken staircase to the top of the trail of shattered glass
Em D
Damp mattresses in the doorway, an old abandoned take-away
Em D
Nothing much to tell us if and where you'd gone
C
By now you could be miles away
Chorus:
G D Em
We all want what we cannot have
G D Em
We've driven so far, we can never get back
G D Bm
Sitting in the all-night cafe in a curl of smoke
C
Telling tales of the road
Bridge:
D G C
And everyone just keeps moving on, you turn around and find they're all gone
D G C Am Em
The lights go out one by one, the prodigal son is not coming home
Em D Em
Down at the ferrybridge junction beneath the cooling towers a man stood hitching a ride
Em D
And in the long grass at the verge his son was laid asleep
Em D
He said nothing's left to keep us in the city where we come from
Em D
Take us far away from here looking for work and the wishing well
Em D
This afternoon the sunlight spilled shadows across the golden hills
Em D
They searched us at the border but they're not looking for what we're hiding
C
They're not looking for what we're hiding
Chorus:
G D Em
We just want what we cannot have
G D Em
We've driven so far, we can never get back
G D Bm
Sitting in the all-night cafe in a curl of smoke
C
Telling tales of the road
G D Bm
Sitting in the all-night cafe in a curl of smoke
C
Telling tales of the road
Am Em
Tales of the road
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