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Telegraph Road
Dire Straits
Key : Dm
Capo
[Intro 1]
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Dm

[Intro 2]
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Gm | Bb | Gm | Dm 
C  | Am | Dm | Bb 
Dm | Bb 

[Pre-Verse (1)]
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Dm | F | G  | D  | Dm 
F  | C | G  | D  | Dm | F 
G  | D | Dm | F  | C  
G  | D | D  | Gm 
F

[Verse 1]
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C  F                    Dm
 A long time ago came a man on a track
C                           Bb
Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
       Bb           C             F                      C
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Bb                      Gm7
  He made a home in the wilderness
Gm7 Bb F                       Dm
        He built a cabin and a winter store
       C                           Bb
And he plowed up the ground by the cold lake shore
Bb              C              F                C
  And the other travelers came walking down the track
         Bb                           Gm7            Gm7 Bb
And they never went further, and they never went back

[Chorus (1)]
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F                       Dm
Then came the churches, then came the schools
C                      Bb
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
Bb            C              F                 C
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
        Bb                                    Dm F
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road

[Pre-Verse (2)]
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G | D | Dm | F  | C 
G | D | D  | Gm 
F | C 

[Verse 2]
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F                     Dm
 Then came the mines, then came the ore
C                              Bb
Then there was the hard times, then there was a war
Bb               C              F        C
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Bb                        Gm7
Telegraph road got so deep   and so wide
Gm7 Bb               F
      Like a rolling river

[Chorus (2)]
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Dm | C | Bb | Bb  | C   
F  | C | Bb | Gm7 | Gm7 | Bb 

[Solo 1]
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F   | Dm | C | Bb 
Bb  | C  | F | C  | Bb | Gm7 
Gm7 | Bb | F | Dm | C  
Bb  | Bb | C | F  | C  | Bb  
Gm7

[Interlude 1]
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Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | G 

[Interlude 2]
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D       Gm
 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  C
  Three lanes moving slow

[Bridge]
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Dm | A    | Bb | Edim  | Fsus4 | F   
Gm | Edim | Bb | Fsus4 | F     | Gm7 | A | Bb | A7 

[Bridge / Solo]
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Dm | A    | Bb | Edim  | Fsus4 | F   
Gm | Edim | Bb | Fsus4 | F     | Gm7 | A | Bb | A7 
Dm | A    | Bb | Edim  | Fsus4 | F   
Gm | Edim | Bb | Fsus4 | F     | Gm7 | A | Bb | A7 

[Break (1)]
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Dm | A    | Bb | C     | Fsus4 | F   
Gm | Edim | Bb | Fsus4 | F     | Gm7 | A | Bb | A7 

[Pre-Verse (3)]
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Dsus4 | C 

[Verse 3]
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          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
              Bb        C                F           C
Yes, and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
      Bb                               Gm7
We're gonna have to reap from some seed   that's been sowed

[Chorus (3)]
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Gm7 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
        Bb        C                 F             C
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
        Bb                         Dm F
All the way down the telegraph road

[Pre-Verse (4)]
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G | D  | Dm | F | C 
G | D  | Dm | F | G 
D | Dm | F  | C | G 

[Verse 4]
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D          F                      Dm
 Well, I'd sooner forget, but I remember those nights
     C                            Bb
When life was just a bet on a race  between the lights
             Bb               C                F              C
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

[Chorus (4)]
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Gm7 Bb           F                           Dm
      But just believe in me, baby, and I'll take you away
     C                        Bb
From out of this darkness and into the day
           Bb                   C      F         C   F
From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain
         Bb                 C    F                  C    F
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
           Bb                 C   F      C   F
Cause I've run every red light on memory lane
     Bb              C   F         C     F
I've seen desperation explode into flames
Bb            C       F       C
  And I don't want to see it again

[Break (2)]
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     Am                         Dm
From all of these signs saying, "sorry, but we're closed"
        Bb
All the way
F Bb
    Down the telegraph road

[Pre-Verse (5)]
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Dm | F  | G  | D | Dm 
F  | C  | G  | D | Dm | F 
G  | D  | Dm | F | C  
G  | D  | Dm | F | G  
D  | Dm | F  | C | G  
D

[Outro]
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Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 

[Solo 3 / Outro]
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Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 

[Fade Out]
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Dm | F | C | G | D 
Dm | F | G | D 
Dm
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