Telegraph Road chords by Dire Straits

Gm       /  Bb
Gm       /  -
Dm       /  -
C        /  Am
Bb/D     /

Dm7      /  G/D
D        /

Dm7 C/D  /  G/D
D        /  Dm7

G/D      /  D
Dm       /  F   C
G        /  D
D7       /      Gm
C

  F                    Dm
A long time ago came a man on a track
C                           Bb                 F
walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
       Bb                C        F                      C7
and he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Bb                        Gm7          Bb
he made a home in the wilderness
F          Dm
he built a cabin and a winter store
       C                      Am     Bb              F
and he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
Bb            C               F               C
and the other travellers came riding down the track
         Bb                 F/A      Gm7                 Bb
and they never went further and they never went back
F                      Dm
then came the churches then came the schools
C                     Bb                  F
then came the lawyers then came the rules
Bb            Csus4      C   F                 C
then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
        Bb             Bb                        Dm
and the dirty old track   was the telegraph road

F                     Dm
Then came the mines - then came the ore
C                             Bb             Bb  F
then there was the hard times then there was a   war
Bb               C     F                 C7
telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Bb                    Gm7
telegraph road got so deep and so wide
Bb             F
like a rolling river. . .

Dm         / C     Am
Bb     F   / Bb    C
F      C   / Bb    F/A
Gm7        / Bb
F          / Dm
C          / Bb    F
Bb Csus4 C / F     C
Bb         / Bb
Gm7    Bb  / F
Dm         / C
Bb     F/A / Bb    C
F      C   / Bb
Bb         / Dm
Dm7        / G
D          / Dm    C
F      C   / G

D    D7/F#  G
     And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
Dm
people driving home from the factories
        C
there's six lanes of traffic
Am                      Dm
     three lanes moving slow. . .

Dm7/C       / Dm
A7     A7  / Bb   C7/E
Fsus9   F / Gm7  C7   C7/Bb
Fsus4   F   / Gm   F/A
Bb      A   / Dm
A7     A   / Bb   Gm6/E
C9      F   / Gm   C7/Bb
Fsus4   F   / Gm   F/A
Bb      A   / Dm
A7     A   / Bb   C7/E
C7      F   / Gm7  C7
Fsus4   F   / Gm   Am
Bb      A7-9/ Dm
A/D         / Bb/D C/E
Fsus4   F   / Bb/F C7/F
Bb/F    F   / Gm7  F/A
Bb      A7  / D

C            F                           Dm
   I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
              C                                  Bb
   I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found
   F            Bb                   C      F          C7
   yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
         Bb                      Gm7
   we're gonna have to reap from seed that's been sowed
Bb         F                             Dm
   and the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
            C                              Bb
   they can always fly away from this rain and this cold
                     C7                F
   you can here them singing out their telegraph code
   C        Bb                        Dm
   all the way down the telegraph road

Dm7         / G
D           / Dm
Dm7         / G
D           / Dm
Dm7         / G7/D
D           / Dm
Bb      C   / Dm

C               F                     Dm
   You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights
        C                             Bb
   when life was just a bet on a race between the lights
   F            Bb              C   F            C7
   you had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
       Bb                               Gm7
   now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care
Bb       F                         Dm
   but believe in me baby and I'll take you away
        C                        Bb
   from out of this darkness and into the day
                        C                F             C
   from these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain
F/A         Bb                  C7  F                  C
   from the anger that lives on the streets with these names
F/A     Bb                       C7 F          F/A
   'cos I've run every red light on memory lane
        Bb               C7 F         C      F/A
   I've seen desperation explode into flames
Bb             C7      F       C
   and I don't want to see it again. . .

Am                        Dm
   From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
           Bb
   all the way

C/E        / Bb
Gm/D       / F/A   C/G
Bb/F   F/E / Bb/D  F

Gm/Bb                     Dm
   down the telegraph road

Dm7        / G7/D
D          / Dm
Dm7        / G/D
D          / Dm
Dm7        / G
D          / Dm
F          / G
D          / Dm
Dm         / G/D
D          / Dm7
F      C   / G
Dm7        / Dm7
Dm7        / G7sus4/D  G7/D
D          / Dm7
       C   / G
D          /Dm7
Dm7        / G7sus4/D  G7/D
D          / Dm7
       C   / G
D          /Dm7
Dm7        / G7sus4/D  G7/D
D          / Dm7
       C   / G
Dm7 Em  Dm /

(rpt ad lib to fade)

Dm7        / F
G          / D