Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros – Long Shadow tab

Long Shadow Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
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Well I’ll tell you one thing that I know 
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You don’t face your demons down 
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You got to grab em jack 
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And pin em to the ground 

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The Devil may care, and maybe God he won’t 
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You better make sure you check on the Do’s and the Don’ts 

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Crawl up the Mountain 

To reach where the Eagles fly 
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Sure you can glimpse from the mountaintop 
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Where the soul of the muse might rise. 

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And if you put it all together 
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You won’t have to look around 
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You know you cast 
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A Long Shadow On the Ground 

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Then one day I could tell my tracks 
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By the holes in the soles of my shoes 
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And that the day I said 
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I’m gonna make the news 

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And falling in the garden 
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Of days so long ago 
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Somewhere in the memory 
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The sun shines on you boy 

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Playing in the Arroyos 

Where the American rivers flow 
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From the Appalachians 
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Down to the Delta Roads 

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A man can’t think so long 

His brain could well explode 
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There’s trains running thru the junctions 
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A King comes down the road 

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And if you put it all together 
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You won’t have to look around 
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You know you cast 
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A Long Shadow On the Ground 

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Listen to the Country- The Night Jar and the Bell 
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Listen to the Night Streamliner 
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Sounding like the wolves of Hell 
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Head for the water- the water of the cleansing spell 
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It was always are destination 
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On the express of the Ne’er Do Wells 
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And we rock thru Madison City 
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And we didn’t even know she was there 
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And when we hit the Buffers in Memphis 
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And Beale street didn’t have no prayer 
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I hear punks talk of anarchy- I hear hobos on the railroad 
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I hear mutterings on the chain-gangs 
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It was those men who built the roads 

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And if you put it all together 
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You didn’t even once relent 
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You cast a Long Shadow 
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And that is your testament 
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Somewhere in my soul, there’s always Rock and Roll