Chords for gordon lightfoot canadian railroad trilogy live in concert bbc 1972

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_ _ _ _ [F] This song is _ pretty well known, you might have heard of it, it's called Canadian Railroad Trilogy. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ It's a song about a time at new _ beginnings and history has no found. _ _
As to this [Bb] verdant country, they came from all around.
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[F] They sailed upon [Bb] a [F] waterways, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ built the mines, [C] mills and the factories [Eb] for the good of [F] us all.
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[Cm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And when the young man's fancy was turning in the spring,
_ _ _ The railroad men grew [Bb] restless for to hear the hammers ring.
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_ _ Their minds were [Bb] _ overflowing [F] with the visions of their day. _ _ _
And many a [C] fortunate one had [Eb] lost many [F] a debt to pay. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Gm] When they see [Eb] the sun, I row around them [F] from the sea to sea.
_ [C] Bring _ goods to [Gm] the young road land, [Eb] all upon the _ [F] seaboards and into their hands.
_ _ _ _ Look away, _ _ _ set the yield, _ [Cm] _
across this [F] mighty land. _
From the _ _ eastern _ shore to the _ western _ _ strap.
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [C] Open your heart, let [Gm] the lifeblood flow.
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[F] _ _ _ _ [C] We _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ got _ [Eb]
to lay down the [F] tracks and tear up the [C] dunes.
_ _ _ [Gm] Open your heart, let the lifeblood flow.
[Eb] We got to get on our way, [F] cause we're moving too slow.
_ [Eb] Get on our way, cause [C] we're moving too slow. _
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_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ Behind _ the _ _ _ Rockies, [Bb] the sun _ is [F] declining. _
_ The stars, [Bb] they come stealing [G] the _ clothes [C] of the _ day. _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ Across the wide [Eb] prairie, [Bb] our loved _ ones [C] lie sleeping.
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_ Beyond [Bb] the dark ocean, _ in a place far _ [F] _ away.
_ _ _ _ We _ [Am] _
[Bb] _ _ are _ _ [F] _ _
navvies who _ [Bb] work upon the [C] railway.
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Swinging [Bb] our hammers in the [G]
bright _ blazing [C] _ sun. _
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_ Living on stew, _ _
[Bb] _ drinking _ _ bad whiskey.
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ Bending our [Bb] backs till the railroad _
_ _ [F] is done. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ We are _ _ _ navvies [Bb] who work upon [C] the railway. _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ Swinging [Bb] our hammers in the [G] bright _ blazing [C] _ _ sun. _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ Laying _ _ down tracks _ [Bb] and building _ _ bridges.
[C] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] Bending our backs till the railroad _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] is _ done.
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_ _ _ _ _ So [C] _
we _ _ _ [Gm] climb over the maze, _ [Eb] into the mist [F] again.
_ _ _ St.
[C] _ _ _ _ Lawrence [Gm] on the way to Gaspé.
_ [Eb] Swinging our _ [F] hammers and drawing a blue.
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Driving our _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] way to the Monk [F] House in _ the [C] corner of _ [Gm] the place from the hill.
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Drinking the living [C] and toasting the _ dead.
_ _ [F] Oh the song _ of the [Cm] future has been sung.
_ All the battles have [F] been won.
On the [Cm]
mountain tops we stand.
_ All the world and all [F] the men.
We have [Cm] opened up [F] the soil.
We have _ [Bb] dug in the rocks. _
[C] And I told _ you. _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] Oh there was a time in this fair land. _ _ _ _
And _ the wild majestic mountains [Bb] stood alone against the sun. _
[C] _ _ _ [F] Long [Bb] before the white [F] men lived.
Long before the wheels. _ _ _
When the green [C] dark forest [Eb] was too silent to [F] be real.
_ _ When the green [C] dark forest [Eb] was too silent [F] to be real.
_ _ And many [C] a peony _ _ _ too _ _ [Eb] _ _ silent _ _ to _ _ _ _ [F]
be real. _ _ _ _ _
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