Pioneer
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Pioneer, by Rick Pino, from album, The Narrow Road
[Refrão]E F#m A
Pioneer, pioneer
D E
Keep pressing onwards beyond your fears
D/F# Bm
and only your Father who goes before you
D
to your own frontier
E A
you're a pioneer
(verse 1)
E A A
Uncharted wilderness stretches before you
D E
and you thrive on going where no one has gone
D/F# Bm
And still it gets lonely when darkness rears
D E A
so sing by the fire until the dawn.
(Chorus)
(verse 2)
F#m A
You travel light and you travel alone
D E
And when you arrive nobody knows
D Bm
But your father in Heaven, He is glad you can go
D E A
Cause those who come after you will need the road.
(Chorus)
(Intrumental), oh yeah, yeah
(verse 3)
A D A
And what you have done, others will do
D Bm E
Bigger and better and faster than you
D A
But you can't look back, you gotta keep pressing through
D E
There's a wilderness pathway and it's calling you.
[Refrão]
E / A
Calling you, calling you.
D E
Call you onwards, beyond your fears
D/F# Bm D
and only your Father goes before you to your own frontier
E A
You're a pioneer.
D E A
Oh, you're a pioneer.
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Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
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