Telegraph Road

Accordi Telegraph Road

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A long time ago came a man on a track
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walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
                         
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and he put down his load where he thought 
           
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it was the best
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 He made a home in the wilderness
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 He built a cabin and a winter store
       
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and he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
              
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and the other travellers came riding down the track
         
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and they never went further 
         
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and they never went back
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Then came the churches then came the schools
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then came the lawyers then came the rules
              
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Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
        
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and the dirty old track   was the telegraph road

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

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And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
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People driving home from the factories
        
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There's six lanes of traffic
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   Three lanes moving slow...

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I used to like to go to work 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 gonna have to pay what's owed
      
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We're gonna have to reap 
     
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from seed that's been sowed
        
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And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
         
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They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
                  
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You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
        
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all the way down the telegraph road

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You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights
     
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When life was just a bet on a race   between the lights
                        
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You had your head on my shoulder, 
             
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you had your hand in my hair
        
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Now you act a little colder 
         
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like you don't seem to care
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   But believe in me baby and I'll take you away
     
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From out of this darkness and into the day
                         
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From these rivers of headlights, 
      
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these rivers of rain
         
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From the anger that lives on the streets 
    
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with these names
           
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'Ccos I've run every red light on memory lane
     
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I've seen desperation  explode into flames
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   And I don't wanna see it again...

     
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From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
        
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all the way ...                  
                   
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down the telegraph road

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