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From KrisNDave@aol.com Sun May 4 10:06:36 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:36:58 -0500 (EST)
From: KrisNDave@aol.com
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: Thoroughfare Gap by Stephen Stills
Thoroughfare Gap
by Stephen Stills
(Intro: G C G D G C G D)
G C G
Sometimes I Consider My Pace
D G C
I'm Reminded Of A Train Gathering Speed
G D
For The Climb To The Pass
G C
In Whose Shadow It All Really Lies
G D G
A Small Metal Wagon Approaching
C G D
The Ever Present Ascending Rise
G C G D
To The Southern Mountains
G C G
Reeling And Snaking And Leaping
D G C
It Seems Like It Wants To Come Loose
G D
>From Its Path Cast In Iron
G C
But She Can't Slow Down Now
G D
As The Earth Has Presented
G C
A New Crest To Reach
G D
Without Barely A Rest
G C G D
>From The Last One
G C G
And You Wonder Just What Lies Beyond
D G
Though You've Been There Before
C G D
And Forget About The Effort And The Strain
G C
Always Ascending
G D
Each Yard Adds A Mile
G C
To The Never-ending Pull
G D
Of The Steepening Grade
G C G D G C G D
That's Before You
G C G D
A Valley, A Forest, A Desert, A Stream
G C
With An Oversized Bridge
G D
For The Trickle There Beneath
G C
You Remember The Torrent
G D
It Turned To Last Spring
G C
>From The Snows Melting Fast
G D
And The River It Became
G C G D
In The Summer
G C
Perhaps It Is Ruined
G D
>From A Fire That Has Scorched It
G C
So Badly That Nothing
G D
Will Grow Without Rain
G C
To Wash Away The Blackened Soil
G D G
Now Useless Till Called Upon Again
C G D
In A Future As Twisted And Far Away
G C G D
As The Next Range Of Mountains
G C G
So Take It As Far As You See
D
And Beyond
G C
With Eyes You Don't Use Enough
G D
Gather Up Strength
G C
As Thoroughfare Gap
G D
Will Await You Forever
G C
You're Seeking To Get There
G D
For Even Before
C
It's No Matter
D
No Distance
G C G Gsus4 G
It's The Ride
from the Stephen Stills album, "Thoroughfare Gap" (1978) and the "CSN Boxed
Set"(1991)
Submitted by David L'Heureux
KrisNDave@aol.com
