Telegraph Road

Telegraph Road: Chords

Intro:
REm7    SIb    SOLm7        

REm9       DOadd9   LAm9   SIbadd9/RE

REm    REm7    SOL/RE    RE 

REm    FA   DO SOL    RE

REm    REm7    SOL/RE    RE 

REm    FA   DO SOL    RE

RE5    SIb/RE    DO4   DO

  FA                   REm
A long time ago came a man on a track
DO                          SIb
walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
                         DO       FA             
and he put down his load where he thought 
           DO
it was the best
SIb                    SOLm7          SIb
 He made a home in the wilderness
FA                      REm
 He built a cabin and a winter store
       DO                            SIb
and he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
              DO              FA              DO
and the other travellers came riding down the track
         SIb                         
and they never went further 
         SOLm7                SIb
and they never went back
FA                     REm
Then came the churches then came the schools
DO                    SIb
then came the lawyers then came the rules
              DO             FA                DO
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
        SIb                                 REm
and the dirty old track   was the telegraph road

REm7      SOL/RE      RE

REm      REm7    DO SOL      RE

SOLm/RE     DO

FA                    REm
 Then came the mines  then came the ore
DO                            SIb
then there was the hard times then there was a war
                 DO             FA       DO
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
SIb                   SOLm7               SIb
telegraph road got so deep and so wide
               FA      REm      DO      SIb
like a rolling river. . .

SIb  DO  FA  DO  SIb     SOLm7     SIb

FA    REm    DO    SIb      DO  FA  DO  SIb    

SOLm7      SIb

FA    REm    DO    SIb      DO  FA  DO  SIb 

REm    REm7    SOL     RE

REm    FA   DO SOL     RE


       SOLm           
And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
REm
People driving home from the factories
        DO
There's six lanes of traffic
LAm                   REm      DO4   DO
   Three lanes moving slow...

REm    REm/LA  LA7  SIb  MIm7/5-  SIb/DO  FA

SOLm  DO/SIb  FA4  FA  SOLm7/4   FA/LA SIbadd9   LA7

REm    LA7/5+  LA7  SIb  MIm7/5-  SIb/DO  FA

SOLm  DO/SIb  FA4  FA  SOLm7/4   FA/LA SIbadd9   LA7

REm    LA7/5+  LA7  SIb  MIm7/5-  SIb/DO  FA

SOLm7  DO  FA4  FA  SOLm7   FA/LA SIbadd9    LA7

REm    LA7    SIb/RE  DO/MI      FA4 FA   

SIb/FA  DO/FA  SIb/FA  FA    SOLm7   FA/LA SIb   LA7

RE4      DOadd9      

          FA                           Dm
I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
           DO                                
I've got a right to go to work 
               SIb
but there's no work here to be found
                       DO            FA         DO
Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
      SIb                  
We're gonna have to reap 
     SOLm7                       SIb
from seed that's been sowed
        FA                            REm
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
         DO                        SIb
They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
                  DO                FA        DO
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
        SIb                    REm    
all the way down the telegraph road

REm7    SOL/RE    RE

REm     REm7   DO SOL     RE

REm     REm7     SOL/RE     RE

REm     FA    DO SOL     RE

             REm
You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights
     DO                            SIb
When life was just a bet on a race   between the lights
                        DO                 
You had your head on my shoulder, 
             FA         DO
you had your hand in my hair
        SIb                         
Now you act a little colder 
         SOLm7
like you don't seem to care
SIb      FA                        REm
   But believe in me baby and I'll take you away
     DO                       SIb
From out of this darkness and into the day
                         DO
From these rivers of headlights, 
      FA        DO   FA
these rivers of rain
         SIb               DO    FA             
From the anger that lives on the streets 
    DO     FA
with these names
           SIb               DO   FA    DO FA   
'Ccos I've run every red light on memory lane
     SIb             DO  FA          DO   FA
I've seen desperation  explode into flames
SIb            DO    FA      DO
   And I don't wanna see it again...

     LAm                       REm
From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
        SIbadd9               
all the way ...                  
                   REm     REm7    SOL/RE    RE
down the telegraph road

REm     REm7    DO SOL/RE     RE

REm     REm7     SOL/RE     RE

REm     FA    DO SOL     RE

REm     REm7     SOL/RE     RE

REm     FA    DO SOL     RE

REm     REm7     SOL/RE     RE

REm     REm7   DO SOL     RE

REm     REm7     SOL/RE     RE

REm     REm7   DO SOL     RE

REm     REm7     SOL/RE     RE

REm     REm7   DO SOL     RE

REm     FA     SOL     RE

REm     FA    DO SOL     RE

REm     FA     SOL     RE

REm     FA    DO SOL     RE

REm     FA     SOL     RE

REm     FA    DO SOL     RE

REm     FA     SOL     RE    

REm     FA    DO SOL     RE

REm     FA     SOL     RE

REm     FA    DO SOL     RE

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Pianoforte

Telegraph Road è un brano composto e inciso dai Dire Straits, contenuto nell'album Love over Gold pubblicato nel 1982. Quarta fatica discografica per la band di Newcastle, si rivela l'apice commerciale e artistico della loro brillante carriera musicale aggiudicandosi ben 10 milioni di copie vendute. La canzone è il brano d'apertura del lato A e, come le altre, porta la firma di Mark Knopfler; tra i loro cavalli di battaglia, è considerato un gioiello del rock!

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Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).