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

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


VERSE:

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

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

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

          D                                 E7                        D       E7
What those devils called your greatest sin, Gabriel and I called your great escape


CHORUS:
        A                         D
               Where're you gonna run

        A                         E7
          tell me, where will you roam

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

            D            A        E7
        Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home


VERSE:

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

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

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

   D                                      E7                           D       E7
it wakes you up out in the ditch where you're tumbling 'round where the four winds blow


CHORUS:
        A                         D
               Where're you gonna run

        A                         E7
          tell me, where will you roam

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

            D            A        E7
        Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home


VERSE:

    D    A       D   A      E                D       A
The polaroids of Indio show desert flowers entwined

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

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

        D                                  E7                       D    E7
But that little girl?s got a new tattoo to let you know you can't go home again


CHORUS:
        A                         D
               Where're you gonna run

        A                         E7
          tell me, where will you roam

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

            D            A        E7
        Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home


INTERLUDE:

        D       A       D       A       E               D       A


        D       A       D       A       E               D       A


VERSE:

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

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

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

      D                           E7                 D        E7
Cause chaos needs another king, a pillar of smoke who don't look back


CHORUS:
        A                         D
               Where're you gonna run

        A                         E7
          tell me, where will you roam

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

            D            A        E7
        Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home


VERSE:

    D         A        D          A      E                  D       A
I'm dirty and torn, my tails hung out, a ship with tattered sails

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

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

    D                                 E7                 D    E7
Now here I find you gazing out of the window at St. James Infirmary


CHORUS:

        A                         D
               Where're you gonna run

        A                         E7
          tell me, where will you roam

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

            D            A        E7
        Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home

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

            D            A        E7
        Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home


OUTRO:

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

D                  A                 E7
     Keep rollin', rollin', rollin' on (rollin' on), rollin' on (rollin' on)

D                  A                 D                A


D                  A                 E7


D                  A                 D                A


D                  A                 E7


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

D                  A                 E7
     Keep rollin', rollin', rollin' on


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