Lyrics Telegraph Road - Live At Hammersmith Odeon - Dire Straits
A
long
time
ago
came
a
man
on
a
track
Walking
thirty
miles
with
a
sack
on
his
back
And
he
put
down
his
load
where
he
thought
it
was
the
best
He
made
a
home
in
the
wilderness
He
built
a
cabin
and
a
winter
store
And
he
ploughed
up
the
ground
by
the
cold
lake
shore
And
the
other
travelers
came
riding
down
the
track
And
they
never
went
further
and
they
never
went
back
Then
came
the
churches
then
came
the
schools
Then
came
the
lawyers
then
came
the
rules
Then
came
the
trains
and
the
trucks
with
their
loads
And
the
dirty
old
track
was
the
telegraph
road
Then
came
the
mines
- then
came
the
ore
Then
there
was
the
hard
times
then
there
was
a
war
Telegraph
sang
a
song
about
the
world
outside
Telegraph
road
got
so
deep
and
so
wide
Like
a
rolling
river...
And
my
radio
says
tonight
it′s
gonna
freeze
People
driving
home
from
the
factories
There's
six
lanes
of
traffic
Three
lanes
moving
slow...
I
used
to
like
to
go
to
work
but
they
shut
it
down
I′ve
got
a
right
to
go
to
work
but
there's
no
work
here
to
be
found
Yes,
and
they
say
we're
gonna
have
to
pay
what′s
owed
We′re
gonna
have
to
reap
from
some
seed
that's
been
sowed
And
the
birds
up
on
the
wires
and
the
telegraph
poles
They
can
always
fly
away
from
this
rain
and
this
cold
You
can
hear
them
singing
out
their
telegraph
code
All
the
way
down
the
telegraph
road
You
know
I′d
sooner
forget
but
I
remember
those
nights
When
life
was
just
a
bet
on
a
race
between
the
lights
You
had
your
hand
on
my
shoulder
you
had
your
hand
in
my
hair
Now
you
act
a
little
colder
like
you
don't
seem
to
care...
But
believe
in
me
baby
and
I′ll
take
you
away
From
out
of
this
darkness
and
into
the
day
From
these
rivers
of
headlights
these
rivers
of
rain
From
the
anger
that
lives
on
these
streets
with
these
names
'Cos
I′ve
run
every
red
light
on
memory
lane
I've
seen
desperation
explode
into
flames
And
I
don't
wanna
see
it
again...
From
all
of
these
signs
saying
sorry
but
we′re
closed
All
the
way
down
the
telegraph
road
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