Emmylou Harris

^C# You make up your mind you choose the ^F# chance you take
You ride to where the ^C# highway ends and the ^G# desert breaks
Out on to an ^C# open road you ride ^F# until the day
You learn to ^C# sleep at night ^G# with the ^C# price you pay
Now with their hands held high,
they reached out for the ^F# open skies
And then with t ^C# heir last breath they built the roads
They would ^G# ride to their deaths
Driving on t ^C# hrough the night, unable to ^F# break away
>From the ^C# restless pull ^G# of the ^F# price you pay
Oh, the ^C# price you pay, oh, the ^F# price you pay
Now you can't ^C# walk away f ^G# rom the ^C# price you pay ^F#
C# Now they'd come so far and they'd ^F# waited so long
Just to end up ^C# caught in a dream where everyth ^G# ing goes wrong
Where the ^C# dark of night holds back the ^F# light of the day
And you've gotta s ^C# tand and fight ^G# for the ^F# price you pay
Oh, the ^C# price you pay, oh, the ^F# price you pay
Now you can't ^C# walk away f ^G# rom the ^C# price you pay ^F#
SOLO
^C# Little girl down on the strand
With that pretty little baby ^F# in your hands
Do you ^C# remember the story of the ^G# promised land
How he crossed the d ^C# esert sands
And could not enter the ^F# chosen land
On the banks of the ^C# river he stayed
^G# To face the ^C# price you pay
So let the games start, you better run you little ^F# wild heart
You can ^C# run through all the nights and all the ^G# days
But just across the ^C# county line,
A stranger passing through p ^F# ut up a sign
That counts so many ^C# fallen away ^G# to the ^F# price you pay,
Oh, the ^C# price you pay, oh, the ^F# price you pay
Now you can't ^C# walk away f ^G# rom the ^F# price you pay
Oh, the ^C# price you pay, oh, the ^F# price you pay
Now you can't ^C# walk away f ^G# rom the ^F# price you pay ^{C# F# C#}
From Emmylou Harris "Cimarron"
Warner Brothers Records 1981
Copyright Bruce Springsteen Music(ASCAP)