The Price You Pay

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