Pilgrim You Can't Go Home chords by Dave Rawlings Machine

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Pilgrim (You Can't Go Home)
from "Nashville Obsolete"
transcribed by Tim Herold


VERSE:

 D MajorD     A augmentedA    D MajorD    A augmentedA     E MajorE       D MajorD      A augmentedA
I won't get drunk no more, no more; the old refrain it shines with use

     D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD   A augmentedA    E MajorE          D MajorD   A augmentedA
While you sop your bread in barley-wine and mop your floor in tobacco juice

    D MajorD              A augmentedA
So they kicked you out of paradise, grinned and locked the garden gate

     D MajorD                 E7E7            D MajorD    E7E7
What those devils called your greatest sin, Gabriel and I called your great escape

CHORUS:
    A augmentedA             D MajorD
        Where're you gonna run

    A augmentedA             E7E7
     tell me, where will you roam

             D MajorD         A augmentedA          D MajorD         A augmentedA
    When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)

      D MajorD      A augmentedA    E7E7
    Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home


VERSE:

  D MajorD   A augmentedA    D MajorD   A augmentedA    E MajorE       D MajorD    A augmentedA
The gilded cage can not contain the gypsies of the earth

  D MajorD  A augmentedA    D MajorD   A augmentedA         E MajorE        D MajorD    A augmentedA
The poet and the tumbleweed discuss what rootlessness is worth

  D MajorD             A augmentedA
And pity those who never felt inspiration's cold wet nose

  D MajorD                   E7E7              D MajorD    E7E7
it wakes you up out in the ditch where you're tumbling 'round where the four winds blow


CHORUS:
    A augmentedA             D MajorD
        Where're you gonna run

    A augmentedA             E7E7
     tell me, where will you roam

             D MajorD         A augmentedA          D MajorD         A augmentedA
    When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)

      D MajorD      A augmentedA    E7E7
    Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home

VERSE:

  D MajorD  A augmentedA    D MajorD  A augmentedA   E MajorE        D MajorD    A augmentedA
The polaroids of Indio show desert flowers entwined

   D MajorD  A augmentedA    D MajorD    A augmentedA  E MajorE            D MajorD    A augmentedA
Their nakedness has already been blasted by the sands of time

  D MajorD                   A augmentedA
But still you thought your sad Jane would wait for you till who knows when

    D MajorD                 E7E7            D MajorD  E7E7
But that little girl?s got a new tattoo to let you know you can?t go home again


CHORUS:
    A augmentedA             D MajorD
        Where're you gonna run

    A augmentedA             E7E7
     tell me, where will you roam

             D MajorD         A augmentedA          D MajorD         A augmentedA
    When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)

      D MajorD      A augmentedA    E7E7
    Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home


INTERLUDE:

    D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD    A augmentedA    E MajorE        D MajorD    A augmentedA


    D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD    A augmentedA    E MajorE        D MajorD    A augmentedA


VERSE:

  D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD   A augmentedA      E MajorE        D MajorD    A augmentedA
So spin the wheel of St. Columba?s and ride his golden calf

       D MajorD   A augmentedA       D MajorD  A augmentedA        E MajorE        D MajorD    A augmentedA
Climb up the silver strings of the mandolin till you can hear the angels laugh

    D MajorD                 A augmentedA
And if rock and roll is more your thing, go ahead and wear the badge

   D MajorD              E7E7         D MajorD    E7E7
Cause chaos needs another king, a pillar of smoke who don?t look back


CHORUS:
    A augmentedA             D MajorD
        Where're you gonna run

    A augmentedA             E7E7
     tell me, where will you roam

             D MajorD         A augmentedA          D MajorD         A augmentedA
    When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)

      D MajorD      A augmentedA    E7E7
    Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home


VERSE:

  D MajorD     A augmentedA    D MajorD     A augmentedA   E MajorE         D MajorD    A augmentedA
I?m dirty and torn, my tails hung out, a ship with tattered sails

   D MajorD    A augmentedA   D MajorD     A augmentedA    E MajorE           D MajorD    A augmentedA
Been down and out, around the horn to chase the great white whale

 D MajorD                   A augmentedA
Across the night and across the day, I save my song for eternity

  D MajorD                 E7E7         D MajorD  E7E7
Now here I find you gazing out of the window at St. James Infirmary


CHORUS:

    A augmentedA             D MajorD
        Where're you gonna run

    A augmentedA             E7E7
     tell me, where will you roam

             D MajorD         A augmentedA          D MajorD         A augmentedA
    When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)

      D MajorD      A augmentedA    E7E7
    Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home

             D MajorD         A augmentedA          D MajorD         A augmentedA
    When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)

      D MajorD      A augmentedA    E7E7
    Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home


OUTRO:

D MajorD         A augmentedA         D MajorD        A augmentedA
 So keep rollin', rollin' down that road that you?re on

D MajorD         A augmentedA         E7E7
   Keep rollin', rollin', rollin' on (rollin' on), rollin' on (rollin' on)

D MajorD         A augmentedA         D MajorD        A augmentedA


D MajorD         A augmentedA         E7E7


D MajorD         A augmentedA         D MajorD        A augmentedA


D MajorD         A augmentedA         E7E7


D MajorD         A augmentedA         D MajorD        A augmentedA
   Keep rollin', rollin' down that road that you?re on

D MajorD         A augmentedA         E7E7
   Keep rollin', rollin', rollin' on


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