Chords for The Big East West - Stephen Fearing Live at Blue Frog Studio. Whiterock BC. Canada

_ [Bb] And we live in such a huge and gorgeous country.
When I'm touring [Eb] in Europe, [Bb] I try to explain it to the _ _ _ Europeans, _ _
just the size of it.
_ Because they go, Stephen, why do you write about the road so much?
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And you know you're supposed to write what you know.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ And I'm a Canadian musician.
I drive, therefore I [Eb] am.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ So I was explaining to them about this recent [Eb] trip across Canada.
[Bb] I said, you know, _ I didn't push it super hard,
like _ [Fm] a [Ab] couple of seven-hour days, a couple of ten-hour days,
but it took me the best part of seven days [Bb] to drive _ _ _ coast to coast.
[Eb] And I could see them trying to [Bb] grapple with that. _ _
[Eb] _ _ But Stephen, if we did that, we would be in Africa.
_ _ _ [Bb] That's right.
_ _ _ Same country. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] Lying across is in a path _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ The wire [Ab] highway of a telegraph
_ _ _ [Fm] _
_ _ [Ab] _ On a [Bb] sea of prairie snow _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Like a [Bb] picture of all of old
_ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] I was riding on the _ wheel _ _
_ _ _ I was thinking [Ab] on the _ past _ _
_ _ _ _ Looking out _ [Eb] across the _ _ [Bb] fields
_ _ _ Watching people _ turn to _ _ _ photographs
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ Every _
[Ab] sailor knows the _ truth
_ _ _ Of the anchor [Bb] and the _ chain _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ You gotta hold [Ab] them close to you _ _
[F] _ _ You don't want to drift [Ab] away _ [Bb] again _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ Every gypsy _ [Ab] _ knows [C] the way _
_ _ _ _ Like the buttons [Cm] on his _ vest _
[Eb] And the sun _ lies _ down
_ _ Before [Bb] _
you
_ _ _ _ Out [Eb] on the Big _ _ East [Ab] way _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ In _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
a [Eb] silo [Bb] up _ ahead _
_ _ _ _ _ The golden [Fm] _ promise of [Ab] the sun _
_ _ _ _ Grind it up into [Bb] your _ daily bread _ _
_ _ _ _ Bring it home to your loved _ one _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ Once and every now and then _ _
_ _ _ When you get back from [Ab] the _ _ wars _ _
_ _ You turn around and [Eb] you're gone _ [Bb] _ _
again
_ _ _ _ To that _ wide open _ shore _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ Every _ [Ab] sailor knows the truth _
_ _ _ _ Of the anchor _ [Eb] and the chain _ _
[Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ You gotta hold [Ab] them close to you _
_ [F] _ _ You don't [F] want to drift [Eb] _ away _ [Bb] _ again
[Eb] Every _ _ _ _ _ gypsy [Ab] _ knows the way _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Like the [Cm] buttons on his vest _ _
[Eb] And the sun _ lies _ _ down
_ _ Before _ [Bb] you _ _ _ _
Out [Eb] on the Big _ East _ [Fm] _ [Ab] way _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ Every _ [Ab] sailor knows the truth
[Bb] _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ Of the anchor [Eb] and the chain _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ Hold them _
[Ab] close to _ you
_ [F] _
_ _ You don't want to [Eb] drift _ _ _ away [Bb] _ again
[Eb] _ _ _ Every gypsy _ _
[Ab] knows the way _ _ _
_ _ _ Like the [Cm] buttons on his vest _ _ _
[Eb] And the sun _ lies _ down
_ _ _ [Bb] Before you _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Out [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ on the Big _ _ _ East _ [Ab] way _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ On _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ the Big _ _ East _ way _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ Thank _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ you!
_ [N] _