The Telling Takes Me Home chords by Utah Phillips

Chords with lyrics

VERSE 1:

 G+G             C majorC
Let me sing to you all the old songs I know

    C7C7        D MajorD
Of the wild, windy places locked in timeless snow

    E minorEm               D MajorD
And the wide, crimson deserts where the muddy rivers flow

   C majorC              G+G
It's sad, but the telling takes me home


 G+G             C majorC
Come along with me to some places that I've been

     C7C7             D MajorD
Where people all look back and they still remember when

     E minorEm             D MajorD
And the quicksilver 🏷Legends, like sunlight, turn and bend

   C majorC              G+G
It's sad, but the telling takes me home

 G+G             C majorC
Walk along some wagon road, down the iron rail

  C7C7             D MajorD
Past the rusty Cadillacs that mark the boom town trail

    E minorEm          D MajorD
Where dreamers never win and doers never fail

   C majorC               G+G
It's sad, but the telling takes me home


   G+G          C majorC
I'll sing of my amigos, come from down below

  C7C7              D MajorD
Whisper in their loving tongue the songs of Mexico

   E minorEm           D MajorD
They work their stolen Eden, lost so long ago

   C majorC               G+G
It's sad, but the telling takes me home

   G+G            C majorC
I'll tell you all some lies, just made up for fun

    C7C7              D MajorD
And the loudest, meanest brag, it can beat the fastest gun

      E minorEm             D MajorD
I'll show you all some graves that tell where the West was won

   C majorC              G+G
It's sad, but the telling takes me home


    G+G              C majorC
And I'll sing about an emptiness the East has never known

   C7C7              D MajorD
Where coyotes don't pay taxes and a man can live alone

     E minorEm              D MajorD
And you've got to walk forever just to find a telephone

   C majorC              G+G
It's sad, but the telling takes me home


   G+G            C majorC
Let me sing to you all those old songs I know

   C7C7          D MajorD
Of the wild, windy places locked in timeless snow

     E minorEm              D MajorD
And the wide, crimson deserts where the muddy rivers flow

   C majorC              G+G
It's sad, but the telling takes me home