Chords for Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy enhanced

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_ _ _ _ _ There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run, _ when the wild majestic
mountains [Bb] stood alone against the [C] sun.
_ _ [F] Long [Bb] before the white [F] men and long before the wheel, _ when the green [C] dark forest [Eb] was
too silent [F] to be real.
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_ _ _ _ _ But time has no beginnings and history has no bounds. _
As to this [Bb] verdant country they came from all around.
[C] _ [F] They sailed upon a waterways and they walked the forest tall.
They built the mines, mills and the factories for the good of us all.
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_ And when the young man's fancy was turning in the spring, _ _ the railroad men [Bb] grew restless
for to hear the hammer's ring.
[F] _ _ Their minds [Bb] were overflowing [F] with the visions of their day.
_ And many a [C] fortune won and [Eb] lost, many [F] dead to pay. _
_ _ _ Oh, [C] they looked to the future [Gm] and wanted to see the [Eb] sun and railroad [F] running from the sea to sea.
[C] Bring goods [Gm] to the young road land, [Eb] all upon the [F] seaboards and into their hands.
_ _ Look away, _ saith the hill, _ [Cm] across this [F] mighty land.
From the _ eastern shore to the _ western _ [C] straddle.
Bring the [Gm] workers and bring up the rails, we [Eb] gotta lay down the [F] tracks and tear up the trails.
[C] Open your heart, [Gm] let the lifeblood flow, [Eb] we gotta get on our [F] way, cause we're moving too slow.
[C] Bring the [Gm] workers and bring up the rails, we [Eb] gotta lay down the [F] tracks and tear up the [C] trails.
Open your [Gm] heart, let the lifeblood flow, [Eb] we gotta get on our [F] way, cause we're moving too slow.
[Eb] Get on our way, [C] cause we're moving too slow. _
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Behind blue _ [Bb] Rockies, the sun _ is [F] declining.
_ The [Bb] stars, they come stealing [G] at the close [C] of the day.
_ Across [Bb] _ [F] _ _
the wide [Eb] prairie, [Bb] our loved ones [C] lie sleeping.
_ [F] _ _ Beyond [Bb] the dark ocean, in a place far [F] away. _
_ _ _ [Am] _ [F] We are _ navvies who [Bb] work upon the railway.
_ [F] _ _ Swinging [Bb] our hammers [G] in the bright blazing [C] _ sun.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ Living on stew, [Bb] _ drinking _ [C] bad whiskey.
_ [F] _ _ [Bb] Bending our backs till the railroad _ [F] is done. _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ We are _ [Bb] navvies who work [C] upon the railway.
_ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] Swinging our hammers [G] in the bright [C] blazing _ sun.
_ _ _ [F] Laying _ _ down track [Bb] and building bridges.
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] Bending our backs till the [F] railroad _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ _
[F] is done.
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ Soak _ [Gm] them old maze [Eb] into the _ [F] muskeggy.
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_ _ [Gm] Soak me, yes me, [Eb] yes me.
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] Driving the _ [Gm] meantime, can't hold [Eb] me. _
[F] I'm housing in town.
[C] I'm dark, _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [Eb] see through the building, [C]
close to the bend.
_ Oh, [F] song [Cm] of the future has been sung.
All the battles [F] have been won.
On [Cm] the mountain tops we stand.
All the world at our [F] command.
We have [Cm] opened [F] up the soil.
With [Cm] our tin rocks [C] and our own toes.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] For the last time, this fair land is real. _ _ _
And while the jesting [Bb] mountains stood alone against the [C] sun.
_ _ [F] Long before [Bb] the white men [F] lived, long before the wheel.
_ _ When the green, [C] dark forest [Eb] was too silent [F] to be real.
_ When the green, [C] dark forest [Eb] was too silent [F] to be real. _
When the [C] green, dark forest was too _
_ [Eb] _ _ silent to _ _ [F] be real. _ _ _
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