"Ancient Highway" w/Lyrics by Van Morrison Chords

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[Am] There's a small cafe on the outskirts of town.
[F] I know when the sun goes down.
_ Well, [Am] yeah, the roadside bends and the twists and turns.
_ Every new [F] generation can [C] all be praying to [G] my higher self,
_ [Am] don't let me down.
Keep [F] my feet on the ground.
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[G] _ _ _ [Am] There's a roadside jammer playing on the edge of the town.
Yeah, the town [C] called paradise.
Yeah, the ancient highway where the train wasn't blowing.
[Am] All the sadness that Hank Williams knows.
Yeah, the river flows, [F] cause them pig and streams.
Yeah, that spins [C] and it turns.
Yeah, the factory on the street called bread.
[Am] Yeah, in East Belfast where Georgie knows best.
What it's like to [F] be Daniel in the lion's den.
So many friends, [C] only most of the time. _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Am] And when the grass is high and the rabbit runs,
I'm always talking to you and I.
[C] [F] Every new generation comes to pray.
[C] The jewel of the [F] organ grinder jam
and [Am] the grinder switch of the sacrifice.
Everybody made to be rational with [F] understanding. _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] I'll be praying to my higher self.
[Am] _ [C] Oh, don't let me [F] down.
_ Keep my [C] feet on the ground.
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[Am] What about all the people living in the nightmare hurt
that won't go away?
No matter [F] how hard they try, they've got to pay.
Time and time again, time and time [C] again.
_ I'll be [G] praying to my higher self. _ _
_ [Am] And I'll be standing there when the boats go by.
[F] When the sun is sinking way over the hill.
On a Friday evening when the [C] sun goes down,
I'll ask us to turn.
I want to slip away.
I want to slip [F] away, got to get away.
[C] And I'll be praying to my higher self. _
[G] Don't let me down.
_ Keep my feet on [Am] the ground. _
Don't let [C] me down.
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_ [Am] You'll be crying again.
You'll be crying [C] again.
You'll be crying again.
On the same way that tears up from your eyes.
[Am] You'll have to slip away in the evening
when the sun goes down over the hill.
With a sense of wonder, everything's
going to be right on a Friday [F] evening.
Well, the cars go [C] by all along down the ancient highway.
And I'll be praying.
I'll be praying [G] to my higher self.
Don't let [Am] me down.
Keep my feet, keep my feet on the ground.
Keep my feet [C] on the ground.
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[G] _ [Am] Traveling like a stranger in the night.
All along the ancient highway, [C] got you in my sights.
Got you on my mind.
I'll be praying that when [Am] the sun goes down over the mountain,
got to get you right at my side.
As the [F] beams from the cars from the overpass
on the ancient highway shine, you'll
light diamonds [C] in the night.
_ [G] Diamonds in the night. _ _
[C] I'll be praying [F] to my higher self, to my higher self.
Don't let [C] me down.
_ Don't let me [G] down.
Don't let me down. _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] And you'll be standing there while the boats go by,
while the boats go by on a [F] Friday evening.
_ [Dm] Shining your [F] light, yeah.
Shining [Am] your light on a Friday evening.
Got to slip away, got to slip away, yeah.
Down that ancient [F] highway, you're a town called paradise.
In the town, in the [Am] town, all along, all along that road,
all along that road, all along that [F] road,
the trans-life is your life.
I'm feeling the trans-life, trans-life is [C] on my mind,
on my mind.
I'll be praying [G] to my higher self.
Don't let me [Am] down.
Don't let me down.
Keep my [F] feet on the ground.
Keep my [C] feet on the ground.
Keep my feet on the [G] ground.
_ And on [Am] that Friday evening, I got to slip away, yeah.
Watching the beat from the cars, from the [F] overpass.
I'll be driving down that ancient road,
[Am] shining my light down that night.
Oh, down that night, all along [F] that ancient [G] highway, [F] yeah.
I see you on my side.
I see you on my mind.
[C] I tell my mind I'm praying.
Yeah, I'm gonna pray.
I'm [G] gonna pray to my higher [Am] self.
Don't, ah, don't let me down.
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Ah, don't let me [Am] down.
Give me the fire.
[C] Oh, give me the fire.
[G] Ah.
_ _ [Am] _ Ah. _
_ _ _ [F] Ah. Ah. _ _
Ooh. [Am] Ooh. Ooh. _ _ _ _ _ [C] Ooh.
Ooh.
Ooh. _
Ooh.
[Am] Ooh. Ooh.
Ooh. Ooh.
Ooh. Ooh. _
_ _ [F] Ooh.
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ I've been playing with [Am] _ _ my [F] headshot
I've [C] been playing with my headshot
[G] I've been playing with my _ _
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