INTRO: C F C F C

He never worried when a day would end
He’d just watch the cars drive by
Sitting in the twilight of his life, he felt a friend
To the highway running just outside

The porch was his rest stop, he was born inside
If he caught your eye, he’d wave and smile
And I wondered if he knew me from the last time I passed by
A thought that stayed with me for another mile

CHORUS:
And no one stopped only halfway there
The old house down by the stream
But halfway there was home to him
He settled in his worn out easy chair
To sit awhile and smile while he dreamed
In his house by the stream

INTERLUDE: C F C F C

Those days on the farm had long disappeared
But his dad’s last words, he’d hold onto
While waving at the highway, a life driving past each day
But a smile might have dried a tear

CHORUS:
And no one stopped only halfway there
The old house down by the stream
But halfway there was home to him
He settled in his worn out easy chair
To sit awhile and smile while he dreamed
In his house by the stream

INSTRUMENTAL: C Am G Am F C Dm C F G C

The trees went first, then gravel trucks rolled in
A four lane took shape a mile away
Too far to see the highway, life’s road dark and empty
A new road opened on this closing day

CHORUS:
And no one stopped only halfway there
The old house down by the stream
But halfway there was home to him
He settled in his worn out easy chair
To sit awhile and smile while he dreamed
In his house by the stream

OUTRO:
But no longer does he dream
In his house by the stream

INTRO: Am G F (2x) Am

Late last night by your house painted green
I thought [C/G]maybe I might run into you
Silhouettes in your house painted green
Lit [C/G]by candlelight

You looked outside of your house painted green
I turned my [C/G]head, had to walk the other way
So you stayed inside of your house painted green
Lit [C/G]by candlelight

CHORUS:
when I was your age
Wouldn’t let that one by
But you’re [ ? ] brave once you turned
And walked the other way

So I take my time outside your house painted green
‘Til the [C/G]mood is right for me to tell you
There’s a kid outside her house painted green
Guess his [C/G]time’s not right (not right)

CHORUS:
when I was your age
We ran out of dreams
So proud that her [ ? ]
Don’t waste time in between

INTERLUDE: (heavy on the wow-wow pedal)

BRIDGE:
Some things you wish for, never come true___, ooh, ooh, ooh
While you grow old, some things they do too___

No more is the house painted green
No [C/G]more do you wear weeds
You came outside of your house painted green
I was a [C/G]little too late

CHORUS:
when I was your age
We ran out of dreams
So proud that her [ ? ]
Don’t waste time in between

CHORUS:
when I was your age
We ran out of dreams
Live each day as your last
‘Cause time goes by fast

OUTRO: Am G F (2x)

It’s been ten years and three since I first went to sea
Since I’ve sailed from old Ireland and home
But those hills lush and green were a part of my dream
When I dreamed of my Colleen Malone

On the day I returned to my sorrow I learned
That the angels had called her away
To a grave on a hill overlooking the mill
That’s the place where she’s sleeping today

CHORUS:
As the soft breezes blow, through the meadow I go
Past the mill with the moss covered stone
Up the pathway I climb, through the woods and the vines
To be with my Colleen Malone

She was faithful each day as I sailed far away
There was no one but me that she loved
And I remember those eyes, soft and blue as the skies
And her heart was as pure as a dove

CHORUS:
As the soft breezes blow, through the meadow I go
Past the mill with the moss covered stone
Up the pathway I climb, through the woods and the vines
To be with my Colleen Malone

INSTRUMENTAL: C F C F C G C F C F G C

All the years of my life I will not take a wife
I will live in this valley alone
Planting flowers around in the soft gentle ground
That’s holding my Colleen Malone

CHORUS:
As the soft breezes blow, through the meadow I go
Past the mill with the moss covered stone
Up the pathway I climb, through the woods and the vines
To be with my Colleen Malone
Up the pathway I climb, through the woods and the vines
To be with my Colleen Malone

OUTRO: C F C F C F C F C

INTRO: C Cadd9 C F C Cadd9 C G C Cadd9 C Am G F C G C

Autumn turning, summer falls
And tail lights disappear
I’ve been stalling on our latest goodbye
It’s ringing in my ears
There’s a warm first hand
Am F C G G G
Marking hours ‘til I return

CHORUS:
I miss you more each time I go
These roads were made to take me home

Can’t fault the highways, can’t blame the wheels
For the life I choose
These windshield movies within yellow lines
Barely pull me through
If I only had
Am F C G G G
What I’d give to turn around

CHORUS:
I miss you more each time I go
These roads were made to take me home
I miss you more each time I go
These roads were made to take me home

BRIDGE:
For all the ways
Times and places change
Only one thing stays the same

INTERLUDE: C F C G G G

CHORUS:
I miss you more each time I go
These roads were made to take me home
I miss you more each time I go
These roads were made to take me home____

OUTRO: C Cadd9 C Am G F

I’ll wait for you as the day comes to an end
And we’ll laugh along the river in the rain
Leaving footprints in the mud
You and I deep in love

Running through the fields in the late night Summer breeze
We’re drifting like the wind blows through the leaves
With the moonlight on our backs
Chasing the shadows upon the tracks

CHORUS:
N.C. C ~ Am7
There’s a road ahead that bends
C ~ Am7
And no matter what’s been done or said
C ~ Am7 ~ D7
I will love you ‘til the end
N.C. G C G
Of the road ahead

The further on we go, the night is growing old
And the morning birds are calling us back home
The secret that we share
Just the two of us can hold

CHORUS:
N.C. C ~ Am7
There’s a road ahead that bends
C ~ Am7
And no matter what’s been done or said
C ~ Am7 ~ D7
I will love you ‘til the end
N.C. G
Of the road ahead

INSTRUMENTAL: G C G Am G C D

Together we will fly, not afraid to fall
Upon the thorns that grow beside the road
And when we reach the end
We can start it all again

CHORUS:
N.C. C ~ Am7
There’s a road ahead that bends
C ~ Am7
And no matter what’s been done or said
C ~ Am7 ~ D7
I will love you ‘til the end
Of the road ahead

CHORUS:
C ~ Am7
There’s a road ahead that bends
C ~ Am7
And no matter what’s been done or said
C ~ Am7 ~ D7
I will love you ‘til the end
Of the road ahead

OUTRO: G

INTRO: Am

In the valley by the river, we had a little land
It wasn’t much to speak of, what we had was by our hands
But the banker took it from us, at the end of two dry years
Left nothing but the dust, watered by my mother’s tears

With all the rage that burned inside me, I rode into that town
And with my father’s rifle, I shot that banker down
And this isn’t like the story books, there’ll be no reprieve
When they take me out before the morning sun

The judge was looking at me, when he brought the gavel down
It echoed off the pillars, “By law son you are bound”
Then behind those iron bars, alone to face myself
With the building of the scaffold, outside my quiet prison cell

I can hear the hammers pounding, I can feel my blood awaken
To a thousand freight trains running through my mind
This isn’t like the story books, there’ll be no reprieve
When they take me out before the morning sun

My father said, “Son, we’ll love you ‘til the end”
My mother turned and hid her face, as the preacher man stepped in
He said, “Know that god will judge you, and know that you have sinned.”
The long shadow of the gallows, spanned my prison cell
It made a cross upon the preacher's back, a hardened man’s farewell

I can hear the footsteps coming now, they’re right outside my door
With a single church bell, ringing out of time
This isn’t like the story books, and now the hour has come
When they take me out before the morning sun

With my calloused hands behind me, like those fields in my memory
I’m staring straight, into a clear hori–zon
This isn’t like the story books, and now the moment’s come and gone
They hang me out to face the morning sun
They hang me out before the morning sun

OUTRO: G F C G E7 Am
Oooooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

INTRO: Cadd9 C Cadd9 C

I watched him take the stage
Like a giant there before me
A poet of the people standing tall
Flood lights beaming red
On steel strings and sweat
The finest tunes that ever echoed off those walls

And the power of his voice
All rage, fire and thunder
I knew that I had changed and I’d never be the same
Now every time since then
When I hear his voice again
I get carried back to that day

CHORUS:
‘Cause it was rock ‘n roll to me
He might as well have been the King
Now I could walk a thousand miles
And it would be like I stood still
Spend my whole life trying
And I’d never fill those shoes

I got my first guitar
When I was twelve years old
It was a fifteen dollar flea market prize
Something in me burned
From my fingers through my veins
And the fullest moon lit the darkest skies

Now I’m just one of many
Setting out along this path
Over dirt roads that he paved
And new roads that he made
Searching for a song
With his legend shining on
Like the Queensport Light glowing in the bay

CHORUS:
It was rock ‘n roll to me
He might as well have been the King
Now I could walk a thousand miles
And it would be like I stood still
Spend my whole life trying
And I’d never fill those shoes

INSTRUMENTAL: C F C F Dm7 C F C F G C

CHORUS:
It was rock ‘n roll to me
He might as well have been the King
Now I could walk a thousand miles
And it would be like I stood still
Spend my whole life trying
And I’d never fill those shoes
I’d never fill those shoes

N.C. Am G7 C
Here lies the village church
No cross no hymn no verse
All the colours congregate in shades of grey
And the choir no longer sings
And the bell no longer rings
Here lies the village church

N.C. Am G7 C
Here stands the general store
Dust beams point to the floor
And nails in rusty cans that never sold
There’s a faded ‘Sorry Closed’
On a peeling painted door
Here stands the general store

CHORUS:
And I just walk around
Through this ashen town
Leaving not a trace
Of the last ghost in this place

N.C. Am G7 C
Here waits the family home
Forsaken and alone
On the walls that kept them all so safe and warm
Peeling paper water stained
‘God’s Blessing’ in it’s frame
Here waits the family home

CHORUS:
And I just walk around
Through this ashen town
Leaving not a trace
Of the last ghost in this place

CHORUS:
And I just walk around
Through this ashen town
Leaving not a trace
Of the last ghost in this place

N.C. Am G7 C
Here rests my father’s bones
With cracked and fallen stones
Marked by weathered cross and worn words
No flowers left behind
To mark the passing time
Here rests my father’s bones

CHORUS:
And I just walk around
Through this ashen town
Leaving not a trace
Of the last ghost in this place

CHORUS:
And I just walk around
Through this ashen town
Leaving not a trace
Of the last ghost in this place

Night falls like charcoal on a mist covered moon
Erasing another day
And I’m caught in be–tween how there’s so much to tell you
And not knowing what to say

Words don’t come easy
They don’t fall from the sky
No matter how hard I try

CHORUS:
I don’t know where this heart’s going to land
It’s like a tornado touching down___
And I can’t explain it
I’m just hoping somehow that it’s not too late to figure this out
‘Cause it’s too soon to turn back [C/G]now[C/E][C/G][C/E]

I could read you a story of the soft covered kind
Complete with surprise at the end
And picture you listening and closing your eyes
To the pages, the chapters, dreaming in colour with me by your side

CHORUS:
I don’t know where this heart’s going to land
It’s like a tornado touching down___
And I can’t explain it
I’m just hoping somehow that it’s not too late to figure this out
‘Cause it’s too soon to turn back [C/G]now

Words don’t come easy
They keep taking their time
No matter how hard I try

And I can’t explain it
I’m just hoping somehow that it’s not too late to figure this out
‘Cause it’s too soon to turn back
Too soon to turn back now

OUTRO: C F G C/G C/E C/G F C/E C/G

She’s planted deep in the garden
Forbidden garden
She calls my name from afar
From afar

She spreads far across the garden
In the springtime
Her leaves turn green when it’s time
When it’s time

CHORUS:
The light that shines upon her casts a shadow
It casts a shadow over me
The light that shines upon her casts a shadow
It casts a shadow over me

BRIDGE:
Sometimes she cries
When the rain falls in the garden
She loves the heat
Of the sun, of the sun

CHORUS:
The light that shines upon her casts a shadow
It casts a shadow over me
The light that shines upon her casts a shadow
It casts a shadow over me

INTERLUDE: Am G Am F (4x)
One day I’ll go
Into her garden
So I might grow
Where the light shines on her

CHORUS:
The light that shines upon her casts a shadow
It casts a shadow over me
The light that shines upon her casts a shadow
It casts a shadow over me
The light that shines upon her casts a shadow
It casts a shadow over me
The light that shines upon her casts a shadow
It casts a shadow over me
The light that shines upon her casts a shadow
It casts a shadow over me
The light that shines upon her casts a shadow
It casts a shadow over me
It casts a shadow over me
It casts a shadow over me
It casts a shadow over me
It casts a shadow over me

OUTRO: F G Am (## repeat 6x – fade to end ##)