mesabi Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][A][Bm][G][A][D]

[Verse 1]
Have you ever seen [D]Duluth
[A][G]
When the Great Lake waves
[D]were [G]pounding?
There must be some way
[Bm]out of there
You might end up lost [A]or drowning
And the polkas at the [D]Polish
dance [A]hall[G]
And the carnivals of [D]spring[A]
[G]And the rock and roll on
that up[Bm]right piano
Didn't the kid make the high
[A]school rafters ring?

[Verse 2]
[Bm]The kid heard Howlin' Wolf
Every night on the ra[G]dio
From [Bm]those airwaves blasting
all the way
Nogales, [F#m]Mexico
And the [Bm]duck- tail boys in Saint Cloud
Polished up [A]their chords of fame
And the [G]armoury show where
Buddy [D]Holly sang
'The [E]Learning of [A]the Game'
Some things [D]never

[Verse 3]
[A]change
[G]On the Mesabi Iron Ran[D]ge[A][G]
Where the north country's
[Bm]rain screams
"Don't make me do the work
my [A]father did"
Bethlehem of [G]the troubadour

[Interlude 1]
kid
[G][A][Bm][G][Bm][A]

[Verse 4]
Have you heard the desert [D]wind [A]blow
[G]'Cross the City of the Ang[D]els?[A]
[G]I was that kid playing foo[Bm]tball
In a Catholic school,
deep down in [A]Mexican town
Richie Valens sang,
[D]'La[A] Bam[G]ba'
It's eighty miles [D]to [G]Tijuana
I stole my parent's car [Bm]one day
Never found the dark- eyed ladies
in the cow[A]boy songs

[Verse 5]
Just [Bm]a kid listening
To my Uncle George's [G]re cord player
Where [Bm]the great vinyl wheel spun 'round
Its [F#m]holy prayer
And [Bm]steel guitars in Telecaster bars
Of [A]San Joaquin towns
And [G]the 'Don't Think Twice
[D]It's [E]Alright'
Mesabi Holy [A]Ground

[Verse 6]
Some things never [D]change[A]
[G]It's still the learning of the[D] game[A]
[G]You might end up on Fifth and Mai[Bm]n
Please don't make me go
out like my [A]father did
I wanna sing like [G]the troubadour kid
Some things [A]never change

[Verse 7]
[D][A]
[G]On the Mesabi Iron Ran[D]ge[A][G]
Where the north coun[Bm]try's
rain screams
"Please don't make me do
the work my [A]father did"
Bethlehem of [G]the troubadour kid

[Verse 8]
Some things never [D]change[A][G]
Some things nev[D]er change
[G]Yeah, some things never [Bm]change

[Outro 1]
[A][G][A][D][A][G]
[D][A][G][Bm][A][G]