The Highland Light chords by Norman Blake
Intro 1
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Bm
Verse 1
D
Up and down the Blue
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A
Ridge mountain chain,
they're strippin' coal
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Sellin' it across the sea to Japan,
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Bm
so I'm told
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See the mighty wheels of progress turn
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and the lanes of commerce run
A cornucopia of junk
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it flows from the land of the rising sun
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All across this mighty country, friends,
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A
the oak trees turn to gold
We can't afford our timber,
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we cannot buy our coal
D
Cause the foreigners own houses,
A
lifestyle like ours they see
So we trade our own resources
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for transistorized TV
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So get on board the highland light train
G
of my palisade
A
And ride to hell or glory,
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it makes no never mind to me
D
This train should not crowd it
Bm
A
and the ticket fare is free
But it's a long, hot, dusty
ride
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A
backward to 1933
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A
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D
A
Some say that the great invention of all time
It was the wheel, his progress,
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really, the automo biles
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D
Immaterialistic slavery,
A
kind friends, now we must toil
As we bow down
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Bm
to the idolistic god of Arab oil
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And way down in Alabama,
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on the old Browns Ferry Shore
See the TV, a nuclear reactor,
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like a child of war
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I'm just sending out the kilowatts
A
down the Girdard Peak load line
A detriment to society
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and a threat to all mankind
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So get on board the Highland Light train
G
of my fantasy
A
And right to hell the glory
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makes no never mind to me
D
This train's not crowded
Bm
A
and the ticket fare is free
But it's a long, hot, ride
G
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Bm
A
G
backward to 1933 three
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Bm
A
G
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Bm
D
So get on board the Highland Light train
G
of my fantasy
A
And ride to hell or glory,
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D
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Bm
Max will never mind me
D
This train, she's not crowded
A
and the ticket fare is free
But it's a long, hot, dusty ride
G
backward to 1933
The Highland Light
Norman Blake
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