Rainbow Ride chords

Kate & Anna McGarrigle

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Intro F G C 

verse 1 

It had been midnight on the street 
            G 
Someone had helped me to my feet 
                    Em   Am 
And said, there’s a taxi out there 
           Dm       C       G 
Waiting to take you to your door 


verse 2 
           C 
The driver said, "Your destination?" 
         G 
I said, "Take me to the fair 
             Em            Am 
The time’s a-wasting and I have to go 
    Dm        C       G        C 
And close the evening there" 

           F        C      F 
The golden coach is on the track 
    C     F      C 
And ready set to fly 
            F         C        F 
The rainbow ride will make its arc 
    C       F      C    F 
And send me to the sky 
       C    F 
To the sky 


verse 3 
        C 
Oh, the tunnel of love is cold and lonely 
       G 
In the hours before the dawn 
        Em                   Am 
And the ups and downs of the give and take  
    Dm           C       G 
Are not what I’m looking for 


verse 4 
    C 
The Rainbow Ride will take me 
             G 
To where the Northern lights are born 
       Em      Am 
All my days of trouble 
        Dm           C      G       F 
Will be ice till the end of time 

    C      F        C      F 
The golden coach is on the track 
    C     F      C 
And ready set to fly 
            F         C        F 
The rainbow ride will make its arc 
    C       F      C    F 
And send me to the sky 
       C    F 
To the sky 
       C    F 
To the sky 

Verse 7 
C 
Rainbow take me 
G               Em 
Rainbow send me 
    Am                 Dm    C       G 
And place me where the sun becomes a star 
F    C    D 
Ooh, ooh, ooh 
      G   Bb     C 
Where I become a star 

Bridge 
                   F 
Come flotsam, come jetsam 
C                  F 
Get on the Rainbow Ride 
     C             F 
Come flotsam, come jetsam 
    C                     F 
The riff-raff, the raggle-taggle 

And get on board that Rainbow ride 

Outro        (repeat and fade to end) 
                   F 
Come flotsam, come jetsam 
    C                     F 
The riff-raff, the raggle-taggle 
     C             F 
Come flotsam, come jetsam 
    C                     F 
The riff-raff, the raggle-taggle 

And get on board that Rainbow ride