Canol Road Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am][C][Am]
[C]Well you could see[Am] it in his
[Em]eyes as they [G]strained against the [D]night,
And the [Am]bone- white- knuckled
[Em]grip upon the [C]road,
Sixty- [G]five miles into [D]town,
and a [Em]winter's thirst to [C]drown,
A [G]winter still with [Am]two months left to [D]go.
His [Am]eyes are too far

[Verse 2]
[Em]open,
his [G]grin too hard and [D]sore,
His [Am]shoulders too far [Em]high to bring [C]relief,
[G]But the Kopper King is [D]hot, even
[Em]if the band is [C]not,
And it [G]sure beats shooting [Am]whiskey- jacks
[D]an d trees.
[Am][C][Am]

[Verse 3]
[C]
Then he [Am]laughs and says "It [Em]did
n't get me [G]this time, not tonight,
[D]I was[Am] n't screaming
[Em]when I hit the [C]door."
But his [G]hands on the tabletop,
[D]will their [Em]shaking never [C]stop,
Those [G]hands sweep the
[Am]bottles to the [D]floor.

[Verse 4]
Now he's a [Am]bear in a blood- red
[Em]mackinaw with [G]hungry dogs at [D]bay,
And [Am]springtime thunder
[Em]in his sudden [C]roar,
With [G]one wrong word he [D]burns,
and the [Em]table's overturned,
[C]When he's fin[G]ished there's a
[Am]dead man on the [D]floor.[G]
[D]Well they [G]watched for him [Am]in Carmacks, Haines,

[Verse 5]
[D]
and Carcross,
With [G]Teslin blocked there's
[Am]nowhere else to [D]go,
But he [Am]hit the four- wheel- [Em]drive
in Johnson's [C]Crossing,
[G]Now he's thirty- eight miles
[Am]up the C[D]anol road.
He's [G]thirty- eight miles
[Am]up the C[D]anol road,
In the [G]Salmon Range at [Am]forty- eight
be[D]low...
[Am][C][Am]

[Verse 6]
[C]
Well it's [Am]God's own neon [Em]green
above the [G]mountains here tonight,
[D]Throwing bri[Am]ttle col[Em]oured
shadows on the [C]snow,
It's [G]four more hours [D]til dawn,
and the [Em]gas is almost [C]gone,
And that [G]bitter Yukon [Am]wind
begins to [D]blow.

[Verse 7]
Now you can [Am]see it in his [Em]eyes
as they [G]glitter in the [D]light
And the [Am]bone- white rime of
[Em]frost around his [C]brow,
Too [G]late the dawn has [D]come,
that [Em]Yukon winter has [C]won,
And he's [G]got his cure for
[Am]cabin fever [D]now.[G]
[D]Well they [G]watched for him in

[Verse 8]
[Am]Carmacks, Haines,
[D]and [G]Carcross,
With Teslin blocked there's
[Am]nowhere else to [D]go,
But they [Am]hit the four- wheel- [Em]drive
in Johnson's [C]Crossing,
Found him [G]thirty- eight miles
[Am]up the C[D]anol road.
They found him [G]thirty- eight miles
[Am]up the C[D]anol road,
In the [G]Salmon Range at
[Am]forty- eight be[D]low,
They found him [G]thirty- eight miles [Am]up
the Can[D]ol road...

[Outro 1]
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