Chords for Pat Drummond - Road to Damascus

Thanks for coming along.
It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you one of Australia's foremost acoustic performers,
a person whose hard work and dedication is the envy of others in the industry,
one of the Blue Mountains' favourite sons, who recently thrilled us all with his performances here at the Blue Mountains Folk Festival.
Please welcome back on stage, Pat Drummond.
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_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
[E] _ _ [D] It's great to be back home again [G] too.
I've been on tour through South [Am] Australia [G] and Victoria.
[Em] It's a good way to [D] come home.
_ [G] _ _ _ [Em] After _ _
[C] the [G] Country Music Festival in [D] January this [Em] year, _ [C] I drove down to the [G] coast [D] and _ [Em] I came through [C] Walker [G] down to Port Macquarie.
[D] _ [Em] As I got about 3km outside of [G] Port Macquarie, _ [D] [Em] there was this girl [C] hitchhiking at the side [G] of the road.
_ [D] _ [Em] _ So I [C] pulled the truck over [G] and she came up [D] to the door [Em] and I said,
Oh, before you get in, [C] _ _ [G] I'm only going [D] about [Em] 3km down here [C] and I'm turning off to [G] Topograph Point.
Is that any [D] good to you?
[Em] _ She [C] said, Oh, no.
[G] _ _ [D] [Em] And she closed the door. _
[C] _ _ [G] _ [D] Two [Em] days later when I was coming south, [C] _ [G] she was standing there [D] again.
_ [Em] _ _
[C] [G] Folks, it had to happen.
[D] After 15 [G] years of touring and picking up hitchhikers and writing [Em] songs about them,
[C] I [G] finally got [D] propositioned by a woman.
[G] _ _ I got [Em] so excited I rang my [C] wife about it [G] immediately.
I named the best Australian [C] tradition every mate I [G] had and told them about that too.
_ Now I'm telling you. _
It's called The [Am] Road to Damascus.
[Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [G]
I [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ [Em] was coming down [C] the highway [G] somewhere south of Crowdy [D] Bay.
[Em] She was standing [D] on the shoulder near [G] the turn.
_ _ [C] A willow mane of wheat and hair and [Em] a soft [D] cornflower stare and [Em] a smile that touched [Dm] my [G] fatherly concern.
As I [C] pulled up onto [G] the gravel I stopped by.
She had to [Em] travel.
She [C] said, Just [G] down the road a bit [D] I guess.
_ [C] And as she leaned under the [G] housing [D] the buttons [Em] of her blouse [C] fell open to the [Am] contours of her [G]
breasts.
[C] But the road to [G] Damascus [D] doesn't run through [Em] Stuart's River.
[C] Nobody's [G] saving anyone [D] today. _
_ [C] Saint or sinner there's [G] a toll [C] for the journey through [G] your soul.
[C] Everybody's seeking [G] something so they [D] say.
[Am] As the road to Stuart's River [G] rolls _ away.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ We'd been driving for a while when she [G] leaned over with a [D] smile [Em] and asked if I [G] would care to break the drive.
_ [Em] I said, Well I'm not all that hungry are you?
[G] She said, I [D] could be.
[Am]
If you pulled over [G] to the side.
Then she [C] put her hand down [G] on my knee and said, Now don't be so naive.
[C] If you don't know what to [G] do I'll show you how.
[D] _ [C] And every male [G] fantasy came [D] rocking up to [Em] me as she said, Eighty [C] dollars [D] buys my body [G] for the hour.
[C] But the road [G] to Damascus doesn't run [D] through [Em] Stuart's River.
_ Nobody's [G] saving anyone [D] today.
_ [C] Saint or sinner [G] there's a toll for the [C] journey through [G] your soul.
[C] Everybody's [G] seeking something so they [D] say.
_ [Am] As the road to Stuart's River rolls [G] away.
_ _ And the [C] shadows in the forest seemed to [G] darken for a moment.
_ [D] [Em] It took every ounce of strength [G] just to drive them back.
_ She watched [Em] that struggle in a glance and she [G] knew she'd missed the [D] chance.
But she didn't [C] miss a beat.
She [G] just changed her tack.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] [Em] And her eyes [C] began to shine [G] and she placed her hand on [Dm] mine.
[Em] And a frightened child replaced the pouting whore and she [G] said, [Em] I need sixty-seven dollars.
[G] I am desperate for the [Dm] money and [Em] I have never done [G] this kind of thing before.
_ I hucked my mother's new TV for [D] some dope on New [Em] Year's Eve.
And [C] I gotta get it [G] back before it's sold.
[D] It [C] was a consummate [G] performance aimed at Christians [Em] or Reformers.
[C] She was selling me the [G] chance to save her soul.
And [C] every door full of downcast bursts had been [Em] so perfectly [G] rehearsed.
[C] I knew better than to [G] heddle from the wings.
_ _ [Em] So I counted [C] out the money.
_ [G] I put it on [D] the dash.
[Am] I said, look, _
[C] [D] I want to tell you [G] just one thing. _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Em] I've seen you here [G] before, last week when I was going [D] north.
[Em] So I know you work this stretch out [G] of the town.
And I thought, _ [Em] well, eighty dollars for a [C] body, [G] sixty-seven for [D] a story.
_ [Am] I thought you had a price [G] that's upside down.
And I said, [Em] go on, take the [C] money.
[G] You can keep your kisses, honey.
Just for [Em] once this world [G] wants nothing in return.
And she said, [Em] well, now, isn't [C] that a pity?
[G] Mr.
Rogers, [D] high and mighty.
[Em] Because I reckon there [D] are things you still [G] could learn.
When she [C] got out in [G] Stewart's River, I [D] watched in the rearview [Em] mirror.
As she [C] crossed the four lane [G] to the other [D] side.
It [C] was a Kenworth truck [G] that swerved and pulled [D] over to [Em] the curb.
But [C] I can't tell you who [D] got taken [G] for the ride.
And [C] if the road to [G] Damascus [D] doesn't run through [Em] Stewart's River.
Then, Tracy, I'm [G] more like you [D] than you know.
[C] For we are both out on [G] this highway telling stories for [Em] a living.
And competing for the crumbs that people [D] throw.
_ When you [C] got out, you started [G] laughing.
You said [C] you must be after [G] something.
And [C] I said I wanted [G] nothing.
Well, that was [D] wrong. _ _
_ _ You see, [C] you're always on the hustle for another [D] trick [C] to turn.
_ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _
And [C] I'm always on the hustle [G] for a song.
_ Yeah, [C] I paid $67 [G] _ [D]
for [G] this song. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Thank _ [N] _
_ _ you very much.
And welcome along.
Thanks for the welcome, hon. _ _ _ _ _