Across The Borderline(Chords)

	        Intro:  C G    
                     
Across The Borderline  (Ry Cooder, J L Dickinson  and  John R. Hiatt) 
(Key: C)   
         
 C                                    G          Am     F                    G7        
There's a place, where I've been told,  every street is paved with gold   
                C        Am          G                      
And it's just across the borderline.          
             C                      G          Am       F                         G 
And when it's time to take your turn    here?s a lesson that you must learn:    
                     C                             G              C                 
You could lose more than you'll ever hope to find. 

     	                              F              G7       C         Am           
                        When you reach the broken promised land,  
			      F                             C               Am      
			Every dream slips through your hands,   
			                       C                     Am         C              G               
			Then you'll know that it?s too late to change your mind,     
		                                   F          G7        C        Am               
			'Cause you've paid the price to come so far   
	                    F                        C          Am  
			Just to wind up where you are,  
			                    C              G          G7    C                    
			And you're still just across the borderline.      
 

                                          
   C                        G        Am        F                       G       
Up and down the Rio Grande  a thousand footprints in the sand  
                       C        Am                G                    
Reveal the secrets no one can define.           
            C                 G        Am      F                   G       
The river flows on like a breath    in between our life and death.  
                   C                        G                     C                                  
Tell me, who?s the next to cross the borderline? 
   
(Instrumental break: verse) 

       C                   G   Am       F                   G  
En la triste oscuridad        hoy tenemos que cruzar                           
            C               Am                  G  
Este rio que los llama mas, mas alla.*                   
            C                           G        Am      F                         G 
But hope remains when pride is gone    and it keeps you moving on 
        C         G                  C            
Farther across the borderline. 


     	                                    F              G7       C         Am           
                        And when you reach the broken promised land,  
			      F                            C                Am      
			Every dream slips through your hands,   
			                       C               Am         C              G               
			Then you'll know it?s too late to change your mind,     
		                                  F           G7        C        Am               
			'Cause you've paid the price to come so far   
	        	      F                       C          Am  
			Just to wind up where you are,  
			                    C              G            G7    C                    
			And you're still just across the borderline.     
 

Tag: 
			                     C             G           G7     C                    
			Now you're still just across the borderline.    

  
*In the grim darkness now we have come to cross this river which calls us us farther, farther beyond.  








	        

Written by John Hiatt, Jim Dickinson, Ry Cooder