Borderstone Chords & Lyrics - Gordon Lightfoot

CAPO: 2nd Fret

[INTRO:] G

[VERSE 1]
The night is as black as the [C]coal dust on the tracks
Up to the [D]east, day is [C]dawn[G]ing
From time to time I get [C]women on my [Am]mind [D]

I'm a son of a gun

[CHORUS]
[C]Borderstone, [G]Borderstone gonna [A]cross your line to[D]night
[C]Borderstone, [G]pretty little town, gonna [D]make my bed to[G]night

[VERSE 2]
The train that I'm on is a [C]hundred boxcars long
So I don't [D]sleep through to the [C]morn[G]ing
That's some chilly wind in this [C]gondola I'm [Am]in [D]

I wish I had a glass of beer

[CHORUS]
[C]Borderstone, [G]Borderstone gonna [A]cross your line to[D]night
[C]Borderstone, [G]pretty little town, gonna [D]make my bed to[G]night
[C]Borderstone, [G]Borderstone gonna [A]cross your line to[D]night
[C]Borderstone, [G]pretty little town, gonna [D]make my bed to[G]night

**Key Change - Up 2 Semitones**

[INTERLUDE:] [A] [D] [E] [A] [E]

[VERSE 3]
The [A]forwarding house let me choose the [D]thing no school can teach you
I con[E]fess I've been out-[D]fum[A]bled
The sound of the beans boiling [D]through the ever[Bm]greens [E]

Sure do please a hungry man

[CHORUS]
[D]Borderstone, [A]Borderstone gonna [B]cross your line to[E]night
[D]Borderstone, [A]pretty little town, gonna [E]make my bed to[A]night
[D]Borderstone, [A]Borderstone gonna [B]cross your line to[E]night
[D]Borderstone, [A]pretty little town, gonna [E]make my bed to[A]night [D]

[VERSE 4]
The [A]sound of the wheels re[D]bounds across the fields
I'm a [E]name with no [D]num[A]ber
And so I guess I'd be [D]drifting more or [Bm]less [E]

Still it's not meant to be

[CHORUS]
[D]Borderstone, [A]Borderstone gonna [B]cross your line to[E]night
[D]Borderstone, [A]pretty little town, gonna [E]make my bed to[A]night
[D]Borderstone, [A]Borderstone gonna [B]cross your line to[E]night
[D]Borderstone, [A]pretty little town, gonna [E]make my bed to[A]night
[D]Borderstone, [A]Borderstone gonna [B]cross your line to[E]night
[D]Borderstone, [A]pretty little town, gonna [E]make my bed to[A]night