Dave Rawlings Machine Pilgrim You Cant Go Home chords

Pilgrim You Cant Go Home by Dave Rawlings Machine

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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