Pilgrim (You Can't Go Home)
from "Nashville Obsolete"
transcribed by Tim Herold
VERSE:
D A D A E D A
I won't get drunk no more, no more; the old refrain it shines with use
D A D A E D A
While you sop your bread in barley-wine and mop your floor in tobacco juice
D A
So they kicked you out of paradise, grinned and locked the garden gate
D Bm D E7
What those devils called your greatest sin, Gabriel and I called your great escape
CHORUS:
A D
Where're you gonna run
A E7
tell me, where will you roam
D A Bm A
When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)
D A Bm
Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home
VERSE:
D A D A E D A
The gilded cage can not contain the gypsies of the earth
D A D A E D A
The poet and the tumbleweed discuss what rootlessness is worth
D A
And pity those who never felt inspiration's cold wet nose
D Bm D E7
it wakes you up out in the ditch where you're tumbling 'round where the four winds blow
CHORUS:
A D
Where're you gonna run
A E7
tell me, where will you roam
D A Bm A
When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)
D A Bm
Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home
VERSE:
D A D A E D A
The polaroids of Indio show desert flowers entwined
D A D A E D A
Their nakedness has already been blasted by the sands of time
D A
But still you thought your sad Jane would wait for you till who knows when
D Bm D E7
But that little girl’s got a new tattoo to let you know you can’t go home again
CHORUS:
A D
Where're you gonna run
A E7
tell me, where will you roam
D A Bm A
When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)
D A Bm
Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home
INTERLUDE:
D A D A E D A
D A D A E D A
VERSE:
D A D A E D A
So spin the wheel of St. Columba’s and ride his golden calf
D A D A E D A
Climb up the silver strings of the mandolin till you can hear the angels laugh
D A
And if rock and roll is more your thing, go ahead and wear the badge
D Bm D E7
Cause chaos needs another king, a pillar of smoke who don’t look back
CHORUS:
A D
Where're you gonna run
A E7
tell me, where will you roam
D A Bm A
When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)
D A Bm
Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home
VERSE:
D A D A E D A
I’m dirty and torn, my tails hung out, a ship with tattered sails
D A D A E D A
Been down and out, around the horn to chase the great white whale
D A
Across the night and across the day, I save my song for eternity
D Bm D E7
Now here I find you gazing out of the window at St. James Infirmary
CHORUS:
A D
Where're you gonna run
A E7
tell me, where will you roam
D A Bm A
When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)
D A Bm
Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home
D A Bm A
When you can't go home (you can't go home), you can't go home (you can't go home)
D A Bm
Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home
OUTRO:
D A Bm A
So keep rollin', rollin' down that road that you’re on
D A Bm
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin' on (rollin' on), rollin' on (rollin' on)
D A Bm A
D A Bm
D A Bm A
D A Bm
D A Bm A
Keep rollin', rollin' down that road that you’re on
D A Bm
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin' on
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