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Long Shadow Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Intro: Am
C		    F	     C	      G
Well I’ll tell you one thing that I know
C	           Am
You don’t face your demons down
C
You got to grab em jack
F		   G
And pin em to the ground

Am  		      C
The Devil may care, and maybe God he won’t
Am	          C			   G
You better make sure you check on the Do’s and the Don’ts

C		Am
Crawl up the Mountain

To reach where the Eagles fly
C				Am
Sure you can glimpse from the mountaintop
F	      C		  Dm
Where the soul of the muse might rise.

C	       Am
And if you put it all together
C			Am
You won’t have to look around
F    C	     Dm
You know you cast
F	     Am
A Long Shadow On the Ground

C	     F        C      G
Then one day I could tell my tracks
C		        Am
By the holes in the soles of my shoes
C                F
And that the day I said
G
I’m gonna make the news

C	             Am
And falling in the garden
C		Am
Of days so long ago
C		  Am
Somewhere in the memory
F    C           Dm
The sun shines on you boy

C		Am
Playing in the Arroyos

Where the American rivers flow
C		Am
From the Appalachians
F          C     Dm
Down to the Delta Roads

C		      Am
A man can’t think so long

His brain could well explode
C			Am
There’s trains running thru the junctions
F           C        Dm
A King comes down the road

C	       Am
And if you put it all together
C                   Am
You won’t have to look around
F   C        Dm
You know you cast
F             Am
A Long Shadow On the Ground

G
Listen to the Country- The Night Jar and the Bell
G
Listen to the Night Streamliner
G
Sounding like the wolves of Hell
C           Am
Head for the water- the water of the cleansing spell
C            Am
It was always are destination
F              C        Dm
On the express of the Ne’er Do Wells
C                 Am
And we rock thru Madison City
C                         Am
And we didn’t even know she was there
C                   Am
And when we hit the Buffers in Memphis
F                   C        Dm
And Beale street didn’t have no prayer
C                 Am              C            Am
I hear punks talk of anarchy- I hear hobos on the railroad
C                 Am
I hear mutterings on the chain-gangs
F             C        Dm
It was those men who built the roads

C            Am
And if you put it all together
C                 Am
You didn’t even once relent
F   C           Dm
You cast a Long Shadow
F        G         Am
And that is your testament
F     C          Dm                           C
Somewhere in my soul, there’s always Rock and Roll