Kiwi wiki | Songs / Across The Border Line

By: Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Jim Dickinson^[1]

Performed: Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson

Intro * 2 2/4

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	D	D	A	D
	There's a	place where	I've been	told

	G	G	A	D	D
	Every	street is	paved with	gold

	Bm	Bm	A	A
And it's just a	cross the	border	line

	D	A	D
	When it's time to	take your	turn

	D	G	Bm
Here's a	lesson that	you must	learn

	D	D	Bm	A	D
	You could	lose more	than you'll	ever	find

Chorus

	D	A	D
	When you reach the broken	promised	land

	G	G	A	D
	And every	dream slips	through your	hands

	D	Bm	Bm	A	A	A
	Then you'll know that it's too	late to	change your	mind

	A	G	A	D	D	G	A	Bm	Bm
	Cause you've	paid the	price to	come so	far	just to	wind up	where you	are

	D	A	A	D
And you're	still just a	cross the	border	line

	D	D	A	D
	Up and	down the	Rio	Grande

	G	G	A	D	D
	A thousand	footprints	in the	sand

	Bm	Bm	A	A
Reveal a secret,	no one	can de	fine

	D	D	A	D	D
	The river	flows on	like a	breath

	G	Bm
In between our	life and	death

	D	D	Bm	A	D
	Who's the	next to	cross the	border	line

	D	D	A	D
	En la	triste	oscuri	dad (In the sad darkness)

	G	A	D
	Hoy tenemos	que	cruzar (today we have to cross)

	Bm	A
Este r�o que nos	llama m�s	all� (this river which calls us further away)

	D	D	A	D	D
	Hope re	mains when	pride is	gone

	G	Bm
And it keeps you	moving	on

	D	D	Bm	A	D
	Calling	you a	cross the	border	line

Chorus

	G	D	A	D
	And you're	still just a	cross the border	line

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