Stranger Song

F#m E Esus F#m

  D                      G       D          A
It's true that all the men you knew were dealers
    Asus           A            E
Who said they were through with dealing
                          F#m
Every time you gave them shelter
  E
I know that kind of man
             F#m
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone
       E                            F#m
Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender,
       E                            F#m   E Esus  F#m
Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
D                    G      D       A
And  sweeping up the jokers that he left behind
    Asus    A       E
You find he did not leave you very much
         F#m
Not even laughter
E                               F#m
Like any dealer he was watching for the card
                    E
That is so high and wild
                         F#m
He'll never need to deal another
E                                     F#m
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger
       E                              F#m   E  Esus F#m
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger
         D               G      D
And then leaning on your window sill
A                     Asus       A
He'll say one day you caused his will
E                                       F#m
To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter
E
And  taking from his wallet
       F#m
An old schedule of trains, he'll say
E                               F#m
I told you when I came I was a stranger
  E                            F#m    E  Esus F#m
I told you when I came I was a stranger
    D            G        D
But now another stranger seems
   A           Asus       A
To want you to ignore his dreams
   E                                   F#m
As though they were the burden of some other
E
O you've seen that man before
           F#m
His golden arm dispatching cards
             E                             F#m
But now it's rusted from the elbows to the finger
       E                                    F#m
And he wants to trade the game he plays for shelter
       E                                    F#m  E Esus F#m
Yes he wants to trade the game he knows for shelter.
  D              G      D     A
I hate to watch another tired man
   Asus      A
Lay down his hand
            E                          F#n
Like he was giving up the holy game of poker
    E
And while he talks his dreams to sleep
    F#m
You notice there's a highway
        E                               F#m
That is curling up like smoke above his shoulder.
      E                                  F#m
It is curling just like smoke above his shoulder.
    D           G       D
You tell him to come in sit down
A             Asus  A         E
But something makes you turn around
    E                                 F#m
The door is open you can't close your shelter
            E
You try the handle of the road
   F#m
It opens do not be afraid
     E                            F#m
It's you my love, you who are the stranger
     E                            F#m    E  Esus  F#m
It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
D                        G     D
Well, I've been waiting, I was sure
     A                Asus         A
We'd meet between the trains we're waiting for
E                          F#m
I think it's time to board another
       E                         F#m
Please understand, I never had a secret chart
                 E
To get me to the heart of this
             F#m
Or any other matter
        E
When he talks like this
                         F#m
You don't know what he's after
        E
When he speaks like this,
                         F#m E Esus  F#m
You don't care what he's after.
D                    G     D
Let's meet tomorrow if you choose
A               Asus    A
Upon the shore, beneath the bridge
E                                       F#m
that they are building on some endless river
        E
Then he leaves the platform
                 F#m
For the sleeping car that's warm
                  E                         F#m
You realize, he's only advertising one more shelter
       E                            F#m
And it comes to you, he never was a stranger
        E                               F#m  E  Esus  F#m
And you say ok the bridge or someplace later.
         D               G      D       A
And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind
    Asus A           E
You find he did not leave you very much
         F#m
Not even laughter
E                               F#m
Like any dealer he was watching for the card
                    E
That is so high and wild
                         F#m
He'll never need to deal another
E                                     F#m
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger
       E                              F#m   E  Esus F#m
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger