Chords for Al Stewart - On The Border • TopPop

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The fishing boats go out across the evening water
[D] Smuggling guns and knives across the Spanish border _
[Bm] The wind whips up the waves so loud
[A] The ghost moon [G] sails among the [F#m] clouds
Tens of rifles [E] and silver [F#m] on the border
My _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ wall the colors of the maps are running
[D] From Africa the winds they talk of change is coming
_ [Bm] Torches flare up in the [A] night
The hundreds [G] set the farms [F#m] alight
To spread the [E] word to those [F#m] awaiting on the border
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[A] the village where I [Em] grew up nothing seems the same
[D] Still you never see the change from [A] day to day
[D] No one notices the cuts turn to slip [C#] away _ _
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_ _ _ _ Late last night the rain was knocking on my window
[D] I moved across the darkened room and in the light glow
[Bm] I thought I saw down in the [A] street the spirit [G] of the century
[D] Telling [E] us that we're all [F#m] standing on the border
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the islands where I [Em] grew up nothing seems the same
It's [D] just the pattern of the grim rain, an [A] empty shell
But [D] there's a strangeness in the air you feel too [C#] well
The [A] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
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[F#m] _ _ _ fishing boats go out across the evening water
[D] Smuggling guns and knives across the Spanish border
_ [Bm] The wind whips up the waves so loud
[A] The ghost moon [G] sails among the [F#m] clouds
Tens of rifles [E] and silver [F#m] on the border _ _ _ _ _
[D] On the border _ _ _ _ _
[F#m] On the border _ _ _ _
[D] On the border
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