Northern Lights-southern Cross

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The war was over and the spirit was broken
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The hills were smokin' as the men withdrew
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We stood on the cliffs
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Oh, and watched the ships
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Slowly sinking to their rendezvous
F c9
They signed a treaty and our homes were taken
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Loved ones forsaken
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They didn't give a damn
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Try'n' to raise a family
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End up the enemy
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Over what went down on the plains of abraham (*)


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Acadian driftwood
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Gypsy tail wind
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They call my home the land of snow
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Canadian cold front movin' in
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What a way to ride
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Oh, what a way to go



Then some returned to the motherland
The high command had them cast away
And some stayed on to finish what they started
They never parted
They're just built that way
We had kin livin' south of the border
They're a little older and they've been around
They wrote a letter life is a whole lot better
So pull up your stakes, children and come on down

Fifteen under zero when the day became a threat
My clothes were wet and i was drenched to the bone
Been out ice fishing, too much repetition
Make a man wanna leave the only home he's known
Sailing out of the gulf headin' for saint pierre
Nothin' to declare
All we had was gone
Broke down along the coast
But what hurt the most
When the people there said
"you better keep movin' on"

Everlasting summer filled with ill-content
This government had us walkin' in chains
This isn't my turf
This ain't my season
Can't think of one good reason to remain
I've worked in the sugar fields up from new orleans
It was ever green up until the floods
You could call it an omen
Points ya where you're goin'
Set my compass north
I got winter in my blood

Acadian driftwood
Gypsy tail wind
They call my home the land of snow
Canadian cold front movin' in
What a way to ride
Ah, what a way to go

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Sais tu, a-ca-di-e j'ai le mal du pays
[you know, acadia, i long for the country (i am homesick)]
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Ta neige, acadie, fait des larmes au soleil
[your snow, acadia, makes tears in the sun (or for the sun)]
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J'arrive acadie, teedle um, teedle um, teedle ooh
[i am arriving acadia (or i am coming acadia)]

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High and lonesome out on times square
A7 d a
Haven't got a dime, ain't got a prayer
A7 d a
Deliver us, lord, from this golden calf
A7 d a
People only want what they cannot have

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Forbidden fruit
D e a d
That's the fruit that you'd better not taste
A d#o7
Forbidden fruit
D e a d
You've got one life that you'd better not waste

A a7 d a
How can i walk with this ball and chain?
A7 d a
How can i land in this hurricane?
A7 d a
Or is this part of man's evolution
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To be torn between truth and illusion?
D#o7
Forbidden fruit
D e a d
That's the route that you'd better not take
A d#o7
Forbidden fruit
D e a
Just watch out for the sign of the snake


Little brother got caught in the web
He ran off to join the living dead
Been through the mill, seen the cross on the hill
He sold his soul just for a thrill
Forbidden fruit
In hot pursuit out on a limb
Forbidden fruit
Your whole world is closing in

You got the picture but missed the drift
About me workin' the graveyard shift
I never went in for no burglary
But there's a stranger inside of me
Forbidden fruit
Don't you shoot the whole works away
Forbidden fruit
It's too high of a price to pay

How can you hear with a bad connection?
You can't see when there's no reception
Keep your distance, don't fool with taboo
'cause it'll overtake and undertake you
Forbidden fruit
That's the fruit that you'd better not taste
Forbidden fruit
You've got one life that you'd better not waste

F#-5 f c/e
Ring your bell
Ebm dm c
Change your number
F#-5 f c/e
Run like hell
Ebm dm c
You can't hide from thunder

Oh, no
F#-5 f c/e
Ring your bell
Ebm dm c
Get in the wind
F#-5 f c/e ebo7 dm7 c
You and me gonna make some medicine


C7/bb f/a c/g
Run that rebel across the tracks
C7/e dm7 c
With the mounties on his trail
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He was taught:
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Don't get caught at the mercy of the man
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Land in jail
C7/bb f/a c/g
Meet me, madam, on the high road
C7/e dm7 c
We gonna blow the man down
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I've been totin' a heavy load
F
And i'm rarin' to clown
G
Mess around

Ring your bell
Shake your tower
Pump your well
Turn on your power
I'm gonna ring your bell
Glide on in
You and me gonna make some medicine

Smoky bars and souped-up cars
Where we drowned all sorrow
Renegade woman
Love me like there's no tomorrow
Left to borrow
Bloodhounds comb the back streets
With the ramrod close behind
Asphalt justice you gonna find
My ass across
That border line

Ring your bell
Sound the chime
Open up your shell
Get on the line
Come on, ring your bell
Gimme some skin
You and me gonna make some medicine

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There was a chill that night in the hobo jungle
Am em7 ebm7 dm7 g7
Over the train yard lay a smooth coat of frost
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And although nobody here really knows where they're goin'
Am em7 dm7 f g7 c
At the very same time nobody's lost


C g/c f fm6/ab
Then the fire went out and the night grew still
Am em em7 ebm7 dm7 g7
This old man lay frozen on the cold, cold ground
C g/c f fm6/ab
He was a stray bird and the road was his callin'
Am em7 dm7
Ridin' the rods
G7 f c
Sleepin' under the stars
Am em7 dm7 f g7 c
Playin' the odds from a rollin' box car


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She attended the fun'ral in the hobo jungle
Am em em7 ebm7 dm7 g7
Long were they lovers though never could they wed
C g/c f fm6/ab
Drifters and rounders and distant friends
Am em7 dm7
Here i lie without anger or regret
F g7 c
I'm in no one's debt

D a/d
Man goes nowhere
G gm6/bb
Ev'rything comes like tomorrow
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But she took that last ride there by his side
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He spent his whole life pursuing the horizon
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Ridin' the rods
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Sleepin' under the stars
Bm f#m7 em7 g a7 d
Playin' the odds from a rollin' box car

G em g em
G am
Come down to the manger, see the little stranger
C d g
Wrapped in swaddling clothes, the prince of peace
G am
Wheels start turning, torches start burning
C d g
And the old wise men journey from the east

Chorus:
Em d c g
How a little baby boy bring the people so much joy
Am
Son of a carpenter, mary carried the light
D g
This must be christmas, must be tonight

A shepherd on a hillside, while over my flock i bide
Oh a cold winter night a band of angels sing
In a dream i heard a voice saying "fear not, come rejoice
It's the end of the beginning, praise the new born king"
Chorus

I saw it with my own eyes, written up in the skies
But why a simple herdsmen such as i
And then it came to pass, he was born at last
Right below the star that shines on high
Chorus