Gene Pitney

Trans-Canada Highway

Gene Pitney


Tom: C#m

INTRO: D C E

#1.
E                 B       Dbm
Met a woman in Vancouver..nearly drove me outta 
   A
my mind.
    F#m                           B
She told me she was looking for a man that could 
     E      A B
satisfy her.
E                    B           Dbm
She was married to a law-man and life was passing 
    A       F#m                E
her by in a two-room shack and now she wanted to fly.

BRIDGE:
Abm        B
You know a man of hunger is a man of fear and being 
E
hungry for your love is being hungry for my blood.
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A jealous man can make a big man run and I am running 
                                       A
like the devil through the morning sun.

CHORUS:
E        A      E               B     E     A      E
Traaaans-Canada Highway take me home..Trans-Canada Highway 
        B             A
take me home..take me home.

#2.
E                      B           Dbm        E
Moved out of town in a hurry..he's chasing me mile after 
A
mile.
    F#m                                 E                   A B
I'm driving cause I'm knowing that I've got his lady with me.
E                   B    Dbm              A          F#m
I see a sign for Toronto almost making me smile..the border's 
           E                       A B
in sight I think I'm gonna be free.

BRIDGE:
Abm        B
You know a man of hunger is a man of fear and being 
E
hungry for your love is being hungry for my blood.
  B                                           E
A jealous man can make a big man run and I am running 
                                       A B
like the devil through the morning sun.

CHORUS:
E        A      E               B     E     A      E
Traaaans-Canada Highway take me home..Trans-Canada Highway 
        B             A    E
take me home..take me home.

#3.
    Dbm                 Abm  Ab           A
The morning paper had a photograph of his burnt out wreck and it 
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made me laugh.
  Dbm                                F#
I told the lady but the lady ran and now the papers say, I'm a 
       B
wanted man on the..

CHORUS:
E        A      E               B     E     A      E
Traaaans-Canada Highway take me home..Trans-Canada Highway 
        B             A   E    B

OUTRO:
E        A      E               B     E     A      E
Traaaans-Canada Highway take me home..Trans-Canada Highway 
        B             A    E B E
take me home..take me home.....(Fade.)