Chords for Al Stewart - Roads to Moscow - 1976

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_ _ _ _ We crossed over the border the [Ebm] hour before dawn, _ _ [Ab] moving in lines through the [B] day. _
_ [Gb] Most of our planes were [Db] destroyed on the [Abm] ground where they lay, _
_ [Ebm] waiting for orders we held in the woods.
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Blood from the front never [B] came, _ _ by evening [Db] the sound of the gunfire was [Abm] miles away.
_ _ _ [Eb] We softly moved through the shadows, slipped away [E] through the trees, [B] [Eb] crossing the lines in the mist in the fields, [E] on our hands and our knees.
_ [B] _ All that I ever was [Gb] able to see, [Eb] _ fire in the air, glowing red silhouette in the [E] dust and the breeze.
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_ _ _ _ _ summer [Ab] they drove us back to the [Ebm] Ukraine, _ _ [Db] Smolensk and Piazza [B] soon followed.
_ [Gb] By autumn we [Db] stood with our backs to [Abm] the town of Olo, _ _ [Ebm] soon [Db] closer [Ebm] to Moscow they come, _ _ [Ab] riding the wind [B] like a bell.
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General Guterrian [Abm] stands at the crest of the hill, _ [Eb] winter brought with it the rains, [B] oceans of mud fill [E] the roads,
_ [Eb] blowing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while [E] the skies filled with snow.
All [Gb] that I ever [B] was [Gb] able to see, [Eb] the fire in the air, glowing red silhouette in the snow [E] and the breeze. _ _
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[Abm] In the footsteps of [Gb] Napoleon, the shadow figures [E] stagger through the winter, _
[Abm] falling back before the gates [Gb] of Moscow, standing and waiting [E] just like an Avenger. _
[Abm] Far away behind their [Gb] lines the partisans are [E] staring in the forest
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Coming unexpectedly [Gb] upon their outposts, growing [E] like a brown nest
[Abm] You'll never know, you'll never know which [Gb] way to turn, which way to look
You'll [E] never see us
_ [Abm] As we're stealing through [Gb] the blackness of the night
You'll never know, you'll never hear us _ _
The evening sun is [E] in our voice, of amber [Eb] the dawn is surely [E] coming
The [Gb] evening road leads [E] to Stalingrad [Eb] and the sky is _ [E] softly humming
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_ _ _ Two broken [Ab] tigers on fire in the [Ebm] night, _ _ [Db] look at their [B] souls to the wind _
Oh, I wait in the [Db] line for the final [Abm] approach to begin _
[Ebm] It's been almost four [Db] years that I've [Ebm] carried your gun
_ [Db] A home it'll [B] almost be soon
_ [Gb] The flames of the [Db] tigers are lighting the road to Berlin
[Abm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] Softly we move through the ruins, [E] the bow to the ground
_ The old men and children, they send out their faces, they can't [E] slow us down
And [B] _ [Gb] all that I ever [B] was [Gb] able to see
[Eb] The eyes of the city [B] are opening now, it's the end of a [Abm] dream _ _ _
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I'm [Gb] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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[Abm] coming home, I'm coming home, [Gb] you can taste it when the [E] war is over
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I listen to the clicking of the [Gb] train wheels as we roll [E] across the border
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They ask me at the time, I [Gb] was caught behind their lines and [E] taken for a snob
[Abm] They only held me for a date, a [Gb] lucky break I'll say, they try to [E] listen for a sign
[Abm] I'll never know, I'll never know, I [Gb] was taken from the line and [E] all the others
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To board a special train and [Gb] journey deep into the heart of [E] holy Russia _ _
[Gb] But it's cold and damp [E] in the transit camp [Eb] and the air is still [E] and solemn
[Gb] The pale sun [E] of October whispers [Eb] the snows will [E] soon be gone
[Gb] I wonder when [E] I'll be home again [Eb] and the morning answers never
[Gb] The evening [E] sighs and the steely [Eb] Russian skies go on _
_ [E] forever _ _ _ _ _
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