Lyrics
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G capo 4 (B)
G Bm
I’m riding a blue streak tonight
Em Bm
Thinking about you and I
C Am7
Walking away from another conversation
C Am7
Feeling the weight of the words so badly chosen
C D
And always as I’m leaving what I find
Em
Midnight skies streaked with blue
Bm
Lonely souls streaked with blue
C
Don’t you know that we’re both wrong
Am7
When we’re both right
C
And here am I
D G
Riding a blue streak tonight
I’m riding a blue streak tonight
How come when you say black
I just have to say white
And we throw the words like weapons at each other
Till we get to a place where we have to run for cover
And under cover of the silence in my mind
Are midnight skies streaked with blue
Lonely souls streaked with blue
Don’t you know that we’re both wrong
When we’re both right
And here am I
On a slow moving blue streak tonight
Bridge
C D
But a blue streak’s not so bad
Em
Gives me time to stop and think about
C D
All the years we’ve had together
Em
And one more time we’ll work it out
C D
So in the meantime, I’ll just stay
In Midnight skies streaked with blue
Lonely souls streaked with blue
we both know that we’re both wrong
When we’re both right
And here am I riding a blue streak
Tonight on a slow moving blue streak
just fine riding a blue streak tonight
To the Top
D G D G D G Em A
D
I'm walking down this long road
Em D
This long road back to you
C G
My feet are blistered in my shoes
C G
My heart so weary with the task
Em D
Of walking back to you
Yours was such a short road
you travelled with such grace
Though the road was rough and rutted
You walked upright and strong, as I try to do
On this long road back to you
You taught me, when we shared the road
Of love and hope and courage
Perhaps you knew I'd need those things
As I slowly take the million steps
On this long road back to you
G D
And your smile will light your sister’s eyes
G D
Your voice ring in your brother’s laughter
G D
Forever young in our hearts and minds
A
You’ll be there
D G D G D G Em A
D G D G D G Em A
So I continue on this long road
this long road back to you
Sometimes, when the road is darkest
When I stumble, and I can't go on
You’ll put your little hand in mine
We’ll walk together, for a while
On this long road, oh this long road, back to you.
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Am
Hannah standing on the platform
D Am
Mama’s hand keeping hers warm
D Am
Waiting for a train to take her
E
far, far away
Am
Mama says there is a family
D Am
With a house beside a great sea
D Am
Who want to keep her safe from harm
E Am
Until there comes a brighter day
Mama says
E Am
Oh my darling goodbye
E Am
Oh my darling don’t cry
C E
We’ll be together again
Am
But today you ride Nicky’s train
Joseph waiting in the bathroom
As station master says they must do
But papa says there’ll be adventure
when they step onto the train
"Be polite and help your brother
Hold on tight to one another
I’ll be waiting with your mother here
‘til you come back home again"
Papa says
Oh my son goodbye
Be brave my son and don’t cry
We’ll be together again
But today you ride Nicky’s train
Dm
1939
Am
Nazis marking time
E Am
Czech refugees in the rain
Dm
A man named Winton cared
Am
that children’s lives be spared
E
600 rode on that train
Years later take the train home
To a country that they won’t know
But no-one’s waiting at the station
When they step down from the train
All they find are names on public walls
And of some there are no trace at all
But millions died before the Reich would fall
and the sun would shine again
But they remember Mama said
Oh my darling goodbye
Oh my darling don’t cry
We’ll be together again
But today you ride Nicky’s train
Oh my darling goodbye
Oh my darling don’t cry
I’ll save your life if I can
And today you ride Nicky’s train
To the TopG Capo 2
G D
Don’t talk to me of war
C G
for your words will turn to action
C G
and talk of truth and justice
C D
changes into bombs and guns
C
and the cost of lives so taken
G Em
is more bodies in their wake
C Am
and more mothers grieving children
C D G
that their leaders did forsake
Don’t talk to me of hate
for hate moves through generations
breeding fear and ignorance
that blinds imagination
and the cost of hate is freedom
paid with our children’s lives
and with freedom we can dry the tears
a million mothers cry
Chorus
D G D
Please take my hand
C G
and the hand of the one beside you
C G
and we will weave a ribbon of hope
C D
that will reach around the world
C
that the life of one more mother’s child
G Em
not be taken in God’s name
C D
in the name of love
G
please take my hand
Don’t talk to me of God
if your God would be a weapon
and in his name you justify
the armies that you strengthen
for the cost of God so worshipped
is more souls lost in the night
and in truly seeking spirit
we can change the dark to light
Chorus twice
repeat last line at end
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A capo 3 – which would make it C
(chord progression through the verses is hard to describe – I don’t know their names :o( - All of lines in the verse go: A – Am up 3 – Am up 5 – back to Am up 3 – back to A)
I heard you calling me as I walked home tonight
Were you wondering what I’d do?
But your voice faded with the waning of the light
And I was left with missing you
I do okay and on the outside I look fine
Although some days seem black & blue
but when I’m looking at the way I feel inside
I find that I’m just tired of missing you
Chorus:
E D A A7
There’s times when I can hear your step upon my floor
E D A A7
And hear your voice when evening’s through
E D A A7
I’d give the world to see your face at my door
D E A
As a cure for all this tired of missing you
I don’t hide out in your pillow anymore
And most nights now, I sleep right through
But every morning is just like the one before
And I awake still tired of missing you
Chorus
Your candle burns tonight, light flickers in the dark
Gold is fading into blue
And when it goes out in the morning gray and stark
I’ll still be here, still tired of missing you
Chorus
