Eyolf Østrem

   D
To preach of peace and brotherhood,

Oh what might be the cost!

a man he did it long ago,

and they hung him on a cross.
      A        D
Long ago, far away
G                  A      D
Those things don't happen nowadays

The chains of slaves they dragged the ground
with heads and hearts hung low
But that was during Lincoln's time,
and that was long ago.
Long ago, far away
Those things like that don't happen no more nowadays, do they?

The war guns they bombed and blazed
the whole world bled its blood.                 *) The official lyrics have:

G

           G
I held her hand
     C           G
on a cobblestone corner,
             Em G
I kissed her lips
       C     G
by the river bridge
           (Em) G
I said good-bye
      C            G
with a night train rolling
              C D
on a lonesome day
                C     G
by the lonesome river edge.

No, that's not the one I was thinking of.

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            A
I sit here alone on the banks of the river

G          C   /b    D/a           G
Wie groe Berge von Geld gibt man aus
             C   /b      G
Fr Bomben, Raketen und Tod?
           C  /b       D/a           G
Wie groe Worte macht heut' mancher Mann
               C  /b    D/f#
Und lindert damit keine Not?
G           C  /b       D/a         G
Wie groes Unheil mu erst noch geschehn
               C     /b   G
Damit sich die Menschkeit besinnt?
    C  /b         D/a           G               C
Die Antwort, mein Freund, weiss ganz allein der Wind.
        /b        D/a             G

Intro:

A
You wanna talk to me,
       C          G       A
you got many things to say
A
You want the spirit to be speaking through,
        C                G           A
but your lust for comfort get in the way
      A
I can read it in your eyes, oh, what your
C          G         A
Heart will not reveal
         A                        C
And that old evil burden has been draggin' you down,
         G                    D     (Dsus4-D)
bound to grind you 'neath the wheel
/d /c  /a    A
Yonder comes sin.

A

       G6                  D/f#
I been warped by the rain, driven by the snow
    Em            /d C
I'm drunk and dirty, don't ya know,
        G       C D  C  G
And I'm still           willin'.

Out on the road late at night,
I seen my pretty Alice in every head light
Alice, Dallas Alice

               C              D
I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari
  D              G
Tehachapi to Tonapah
            G             /a         /b        C
I've driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
C                                       D

C   F   C    F    C

                 C      F    C
Why do I have to choose
       F         C      F    C
and see everybody lose?
                         G
Walk around and sing the blues,
                   C
Well, darling, I refuse.

Love is hard to find
Love of any kind
And love like yours and mine
Creates its own design.

Why do I have to choose
and see everybody lose?
Walk around and sing the blues,
Oh, darling, I refuse.

When I think of her,
then I think of you,
The love is not the same,
but either love is true.

Why do I have to choose
see everybody lose