Chords for STEPHEN FEARING - THE LONGEST ROAD

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_ _ _ _ [Ab] I'm standing at a window. _ _ _ _
I'm pressed [Db] against the _ past.
[Ab] _ _ _ [Bbm] I'm looking on in black and white _ [Bb] through the eyes of _ _ [Eb] photographs. _ _
[Gb] And I'm falling into [Fm] face _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] cultivated _ _ trance.
_ Through _ dimensions, [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] _ just to [Eb] get _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] carried on.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] Out of _ Gaspel in the morning. _ _ _
On a train in sixty [Db] _
-nine.
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] To the arc wild of [Db] the rising sun we [Eb]
left the coast behind. _ _ _
[Gb] And the wheels [Db] roll in a rhythm.
_ And I heard of [Bb] them for the first time. _
The [Eb] endless _ song of [Db] _ traveling _ _ [Eb] out of _ _ Canada.
_ _ _ Oh, [Db] _
Canada.
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[Db] The longest _ road [Ab] I've known.
_ _ _ [Db] _ Paved with a kind _ [Ab] broken heart.
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[F] Lead to broken _ home. _
_ [Gb] Looking [Db] backwards, _ I remember.
_ _ [Bbm] The cracks [Ab] in all [Bb] the paving stone. _
And [Ab] the distances _ [Db] I've _ traveled _ _ [Bb] out of Canada.
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ Through _ _
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_ _ _ [Ab] the dog _ days of the _ prairies.
_ Above the sky above [Db] our heads.
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_ My _ stepfather looked [Db] for _ mounties in the [Eb] streets of _ _ _ Winnipeg.
_ [Ab] He [Gb] told them of my [Fm] mother's love _ that stole his [Ab] heart away.
_ [Eb] And we [Ab] all stood there _ posed [Db] for _ _ Polaroids [Bb] of Canada. _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ [Db] Oh, Canada. _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ The [Db] longest _ road [Ab] I've known. _ _
[Db] _ _ Paved with a kind [Ab] broken heart.
Lead [G] _ to broken [Db] _ home.
_ [Gb] Looking backwards, [Fm] _ _ I _ remember.
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The cracks [Ab] in all [Bb] the paving _ _ _ _ [Ab] stone.
And the distances [Db] I've traveled _ _ [Bb] out of Canada.
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_ _ _ I _ awoke _ wrapped in my mother's arms [Gb] on the docks of [Db] Montreal. _
_ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ [Ab] It's a bit like Christmas, [Gb] _ where the moon was small [Db] and _ long.
And when I see the smoke [Ab] of England, _ _ [Db] I've never felt so [Bb] small. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ And [Ab] I waited _ _ _ until the ocean _ _ turned from yellow to [Db] gray.
_ [Ab] _ _ And [Bbm] the wind threshed the water _ and [Eb] _
washed our wake away. _
_ _ _ And [Gb] the _ seagulls flew [Fm] like _ words _ [C]
back [Bb] to the mouth [Ab] of the St.
Lawrence.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ As we sailed out [Db] on the _ _ _ [Bb] ocean.
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_ _ [Db] Oh, Canada.
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_ _ _ The _ [Db] longest _ road [Ab] I've known. _
_ [Db] _ Paved with a kind [Ab] of broken heart.
[Bb] Lead to [Db] broken home.
_ _ Looking [Gb] _
backwards, [Db] _ _ I remember.
[Bbm] The cracks [Ab] in all the paving stone.
_ And the distances [Db] I've traveled _ out [Eb] of [Em] _ _ [Db] Canada.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Db] first country of [Ab] my youth. _ _
[Db] My heart was ever [Ab] drawn to you.
[Dbm] Like a [G] drum to a broken [Db] tooth. _ _ _
In a world where _ [Fm] everyone _ was always _ [Ab] a sheep. _
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_ _ _ I [Ab] was trying to keep my [Db] _ _ fingertips _ _
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