Long Shadow Chords & Lyrics - Joe Strummer And 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
And [C]that the day I sa[F]id
[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
The [F]sun s[C]hines on you[Dm] boy

[C] [Am]
Playing in the Arroyos

Where the American rivers flow
[C] [Am]
From the Appalachians
Do[F]wn to the D[C]elta R[Dm]oads

[C] [Am]
A man can't think so long

His brain could well explode
[C] [Am]
There's trains running thru the junctions
A [F]King comes d[C]own the r[Dm]oad

[C] [Am]
And if you put it all together
You [C]won't have to look a[Am]round
[F]You [C]know you [Dm]cast
A Long S[F]hadow On the G[Am]round

Lis[G]ten to the Country- The Night Jar and the Bell
Li[G]sten to the Night Streamliner
Soun[G]ding like the wolves of Hell
He[C]ad for the w[Am]ater- the water of the cleansing spell
It was [C]always are de[Am]stination
On the [F]express of the [C]Ne'er Do [Dm]Wells
And we [C]rock thru Madison [Am]City
And we [C]didn't even know she was t[Am]here
And when we [C]hit the Buffers in M[Am]emphis
And [F]Beale street didn't [C]have no p[Dm]rayer
I he[C]ar punks talk of a[Am]narchy- I hear h[C]obos on the r[Am]ailroad
I hear [C]mutterings on the [Am]chain-gangs
It was t[F]hose men who b[C]uilt the [Dm]roads

And if you [C]put it all to[Am]gether
You [C]didn't even once r[Am]elent
[F]You [C]cast a Long [Dm]Shadow
[F]And that [G]is your te[Am]stament
[F]Somewh[C]ere in my s[Dm]oul, there's always Rock and [C]Roll