Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

I'm on a B road heading for the sea

To see if hands across the ocean

 Shake or wave

Through the whiplash of the windscreen wipers

I can see for miles

 But all I do is watch the time

 And the driver's hands

He harbours thoughts on personal grief

I said your hardship's

Only one of a fleet

That didn't go down well

Chorus

 Listen son if you'd spent

 Your life in the last lane

 You would have an accent to grind

 Punch-drunk on patriotism

 Blind-drunk on borderism

 Maybe I should drive

 And while you're castaway

The mice'll play

 They'll have a license

 To dull those left back home

 What about those poor souls?

Chorus

 And as I jumped to these conclusions

 He thumped his feet on the brakes

 But we still hit a songwriter

 Trudging through the rain

 Scrambled out and watched him

Rest in pieces

 Said a prayer and rifled

 Through his pockets

But the side of his mouth

 Still had something to say

 At the toss of a coin

 I end up head in the dirt

 And tail in the air

 Yet you can dance away

 But be it friend of hard-up-man

=46ellow or kin

 When the chips are down

 They're down for good