Key: G
Introduction:
G7 C9
Line of crosses in the path
C9 F6 F F6
The wire highway of the telegraph
F G7(4)
On a sea of prairie snow
G7 C G7(4)
Like a picture of long ago
verse 2
G7 C9
And I was riding on the wheel
F6 F
I was thinking on the past
F6 F G7(4)
Looking out across the fields
G7 C
Watching people turn to photographs
C7 F9
And every sailor knows the truth
C
About the anchor and the chain
F9
Got to hold them close to you
D7/F# G7(4) G7
If you don?t want to drift away again
C F9
Every gyspy knows the way
Am
Like the buttons on his vest
C G7(4)
And the sun lies down before you
G7 C9
Out on the big east west
verse 3
G7 C9
In the silo up ahead
C9 F6 F F6
The golden promise of the sun
F G7(4)
Grinded into your daily bread
G7 C G7(4)
Bring it home to your loved ones
verse 4
G7 C9
Once in every now and then
F6 F
When you get back from the wars
F6 F G7(4)
You turn around and you?re gone again
G7 C
To that wide open shore
C7 F9
And every sailor knows the truth
C
About the anchor and the chain
F9
Hold them close to you
D7/F# G7(4) G7
If you don?t want to drift away again
C F9
Every gyspy knows the way
Am
Like the buttons on his vest
C G7(4)
And the sun lies down before you
G7 C9
Out on the big east west
G7 C9
On the big east west