Canol Road chords by Stan Rogers

Chords with lyrics

A minorAm       E minorEm      G+G          D MajorD
Well you could see it in his eyes as they strained against the night
     A minorAm          E minorEm      C majorC
And the bone-white-knuckled grip upon the road
     G+G       D MajorD      E minorEm        C majorC
Sixty-five miles into town, and a winter’s thirst to drown
   G+G        A minorAm         D MajorD
A augmentedA winter still with two months left to go

   A minorAm        E minorEm    G+G         D MajorD
His eyes are too far open, his grin too hard and sore
   A minorAm       E minorEm        C majorC
His shoulders too far high to bring relief
     G+G       D MajorD    E minorEm       C majorC
But the Kopper King is hot, even if the band is not
     G+G          A minorAm         D MajorD
And it sure beats shooting whiskey-jacks and trees

     A minorAm         E minorEm       G+G        D MajorD
Then he laughs and says “It didn’t get me this time, not tonight
   A minorAm       E minorEm       C majorC
I wasn’t screaming when I hit the door.”
     G+G         D MajorD        E minorEm      C majorC
But his hands on the tabletop, will their shaking never stop
    G+G        A minorAm       D MajorD
Those hands sweep the bottles to the floor

      A minorAm         E minorEm      G+G        D MajorD
Now he’s a bear in a blood-red mackinaw with hungry dogs at bay
    A minorAm       E minorEm       C majorC
And springtime thunder in his sudden roar
   G+G         D MajorD        E minorEm     C majorC
With one wrong word he burns, and the table’s overturned
      G+G         A minorAm        D MajorD
When he’s finished there’s a dead man on the floor

      G+G         A minorAm           D MajorD
Well they watched for him in Carmacks, Haines, and Carcross
   G+G           A minorAm        D MajorD
With Teslin blocked there’s nowhere else to go
    A minorAm        E minorEm          C majorC
But he hit the four-wheel-drive in Johnson’s Crossing
      G+G        A minorAm       D MajorD
Now he’s thirty-eight miles up the Canol road
    G+G        A minorAm       D MajorD
He’s thirty-eight miles up the Canol road
    G+G        A minorAm      D MajorD
In the Salmon Range at forty-eight below

      A minorAm       E minorEm       G+G        D MajorD
Well it’s God’s own neon green above the mountains here tonight
      A minorAm       E minorEm        C majorC
Throwing brittle coloured shadows on the snow
    G+G       D MajorD         E minorEm       C majorC
It’s four more hours til dawn, and the gas is almost gone
     G+G      A minorAm       D MajorD
And that bitter Yukon wind begins to blow

       A minorAm      E minorEm       G+G       D MajorD
Now you can see it in his eyes as they glitter in the light
     A minorAm         E minorEm       C majorC
And the bone-white rime of frost around his brow
   G+G        D MajorD      E minorEm        C majorC
Too late the dawn has come, that Yukon winter has won
     G+G        A minorAm     D MajorD
And he’s got his cure for cabin fever now

      G+G         A minorAm           D MajorD
Well they watched for him in Carmacks, Haines, and Carcross
   G+G           A minorAm        D MajorD
With Teslin blocked there’s nowhere else to go
    A minorAm        E minorEm          C majorC
But he hit the four-wheel-drive in Johnson’s Crossing
      G+G        A minorAm       D MajorD
Now he’s thirty-eight miles up the Canol road
    G+G        A minorAm       D MajorD
He’s thirty-eight miles up the Canol road
    G+G        A minorAm      D MajorD
In the Salmon Range at forty-eight below