Dominion Road
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- C - Em - F - C
(2x)
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C G
1. Dominion Road is bending under its own weight,
C F C G
shining
like a strip, cut from a sheet metal plate,
F G
‘cos it’s just been raining. + G - F - C
G C
2. Jane reached the point
where she knew
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G
what
he meant before he’d opened his mouth,
G C
he
couldn’t say the same or he would’ve
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G
guessed
she was moving south, with one of his friends.
G D
C
G
But it’s getting better now,
he found it in him to forgive,
D
C G
he
walked the city, and he found a place to live
F#m C
in a
halfway house, halfway down Dominion Road.
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C -
Em - F - C
G C
F C G
3. He watched Jane’s brother sell the house, he
felt no sense of loss,
C
F C G
more
like a mountain-climber looking back having made it across
F G
the steepest
face.
G D C
G
Oh, but he’s still climbing,
see him trying to cross the street,
D
C G
he
tests his footing, like he was up ten thousand feet
F#m C
above
the clouds, halfway down Dominion Road.
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C +
Em - F (4x) - C - G - - -
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- - - - - - D C
G
But he’s getting better now, he
rests his head on the windowsill,
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G
he
watches the city, sees the antennae in the hills
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from
the halfway house, halfway down Dominion Road.
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G
Halfway down, halfway down,
halfway down Dominion Road,
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halfway
down, halfway down, halfway down Dominion Road.
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+ Woah ! Dominion Road.
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- C Em - F - C
Dominion
Road. Dominion Road.
(orig. = capo 4th) (The Mutton
Birds)