Telegraph Road-Dire Straits

[ti:Telegraph Road] [ar:Dire Straits] [al:] [01:06.78]Artist: Dire Straits [01:12.36]Album: Money For Nothing [01:23.12]Title: Telegraph Road [03:14.74][01:49.01]{Guitar Solo}........................ [02:13.72]A long time ago came a man on a track [02:17.97]Walking thirty miles with a sac on his back [02:21.98]And he put down his load where he thought it was the best [02:26.68]And he made a home in the wilderness [02:31.77]He built a cabin and a winter store [02:36.15]And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore [02:40.41]And the other travellers came riding down the track [02:44.22]And they never went further and they never went back [02:50.50]Then came the churches then came the schools [02:54.32]Then came the lawyers then came the rules [02:58.41]Then came the trains and trucks with their loads [03:02.34]And the dirty old track was the telegraph road [03:30.78]Then came the mines - then came the ore [03:35.25]Then there was the hard times then there was a war [03:39.29]Telegraph sang a song about the world outside [03:43.27]Telegraph road got so deep and so wide [03:48.72]Like a rolling river ... [05:21.15][03:50.58][Piano Music]................................................ [09:48.78][07:52.08][05:49.93][04:07.04]{Guitar Solo}................................................... [10:12.71][06:12.75][04:33.61]{Guitar Solo2}................................................... [10:42.97][06:33.80][04:53.71]{Guitar Solo3}................................................... [04:57.91]And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze [05:02.95]People driving from the factories [05:05.98]There's six lanes of traffic [05:09.38]Three lanes moving slow ... [07:13.51]I used to like to go to work but they shut it down [07:16.90]I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found [07:20.76]Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed [07:25.03]We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed [07:31.75]And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles [07:35.65]They can always run away from this rain and this cold [07:39.77]You can hear them singing out their telegraph code [07:43.39]All the way down the telegraph road [08:20.95]You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights [08:24.61]When life was just a bet on race between the light [08:28.65]You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair [08:32.60]Now you act a little colder like you don't seem care ... [08:38.14]But believe in me baby and I'll take you away [08:42.50]From out of this darkness and into the day [08:46.17]From these rivers of headlights these river of rain [08:50.38]From the anger that lives on the streets with these names [08:54.17]Cos I've run every rod light on memory lane [08:58.28]I've seen desperation explode into flames [09:03.20]And I don't want to see it again ... [09:09.70]From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed [09:15.22]All the way............... [09:30.24]Down the telegraph road................................. [11:05.92]