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Roads to Moscow- Al Stewart
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Intro solo from Indian Summer live version
6/8 time
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They crossed over...
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Em (022000@1) D (xx0232@1) Em (022000@1)They crossed over the border the hour before dawn
D (xx0232@1) Cmaj7 (x32000@1)Moving in lines through the day
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Am (x02210@1)Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay
Em (022000@1) D (xx0232@1) Em (022000@1)Waiting for orders we held in the wood
D (xx0232@1) Cmaj7 (x32000@1)Word from the front never came
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Am (x02210@1)By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away
E (022100@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)Ah softly we move through the shadows, slip away through the trees
E (022100@1) Fmaj7Crossing (1x3210@1)their lines in the mists in the fields on our hands and our
knees
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) E (022100@1) And all that I ever, was able to see
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)
Em (022000@1)The fire in the air, glowing red, silhouetting the smoke on the breeze
D (xx0232@1) Em (022000@1)All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine
D (xx0232@1) Cmaj7 (x32000@1)Smolensk and Viasma soon fell
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Am (x02210@1)By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel
Em (022000@1) D (xx0232@1) Em (022000@1)Closer and closer to Moscow they come
D (xx0232@1) Cmaj7 (x32000@1)Riding the wind like a bell
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Am (x02210@1)General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill
E (022100@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads
E (022100@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)Glueing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled
with snow
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) E (022100@1)And all that I ever, was able to see
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)The fire in the air glowing red, silhouetting the snow on the breeze.
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhhh x4
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
Fmaj7
In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures stagger through the
winter
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
Fmaj7
Falling back before the gates of Moscow, standing in the wings like an
avenger
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the
forest
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts growing like a promise
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)You'll never know, you'll never know which way to turn, which way to
look
Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) you'll never see us
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)As we're stealing through the blackness of the night, you'll never know
Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) you'll never hear us
G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) E (022100@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)And the evening sings in a voice of amber the dawn is surely coming
G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) E (022100@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)
Em (022000@1)The morning road leads to Stalingrad and the sky is, softly humming
D (xx0232@1) Em (022000@1)Two broken tigers on fire in the night
D (xx0232@1) Cmaj7 (x32000@1)Flicker their souls to the wind
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Am (x02210@1)We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin
Em (022000@1) D (xx0232@1) Em (022000@1)It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun
D (xx0232@1) Cmaj7 (x32000@1)At home it will almost be spring
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Am (x02210@1)The flames of the tigers are lighting the road to Berlin
E (022100@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground
E (022100@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)The old men and children they throw out to face us, they can't slow us
down
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) E (022100@1)And all that I ever, was able to see
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)The eyes of the city are opening now it's the end of the dream
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh x4
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
Fmaj7
I'm coming home, I'm coming home, you can taste it in the wind the war
is over
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
Fmaj7
And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the
border
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
Fmaj7
And they ask me of the time I was caught behind their lines and taken
prisoner
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
Fmaj7
They only held me for a day a lucky break, I say, they turn and listen
closer
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)I'll never know, I'll never know why I was taken from the line
Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) and all the others
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia
G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) E (022100@1)
Fmaj7
And it's cold and damp in the transit camp and the air is still and
sullen
G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) E (022100@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)The pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming
G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) E (022100@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)And I wonder when I'll be home again, and the morning answers, never
G (320003@1) Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) E (022100@1)And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on
Fmaj7 (1x3210@1) F (133211@1)
