Thompson, Richard - When I Get To The Border Lyrics

2:15 those solos, all so seamless...

hey I really feel like the acoustic guitar in this song is in open g tuning but all tabs for it on the web are standard tuning. so if any of you happen to have the arcane knowledge I'm lacking pls share it with me

Try it in G capo 5

build that wall Donny

Thanks and Sharing. Richard is great plus Love to Linda........

Thanks and posting as Linda has a new album of Dance Hall tunes out.......

Means so much-my late wife's favourite song-played at her funeral! Salty girl with yellow hair! xx

What a great song for a funeral. May she rest in peace.

Thank you Sir!

Joe Crow And you'll always remember her with a smile.

This may be one of the best folk rock albums ever made

Love this track one of my favorites

3 people have poor taste

MCGREGOR!!!!!!!! BLOOD SWEAT PRIDE

This album has no peer and this should be the opening song for Blood Meridian should it ever be made for cinema...

This album is an acquired taste for sure. But def one of their best. In a fair world theyd have been in the rock and roll hof years ago

Dirty people take what's mine
I can leave them all behind
They can never cross that line
When I get to the border
Sawbones standing at the door
Waiting till I hit the floor
He won't find me anymore
When I get to the border

Monday morning, monday morning
Closing in on me
I'm packing up and I'm running away
To where nobody picks on me

If you see a box of pine
With a name that looks like mine
Just say I drowned in a barrel of wine
When I got to the border
When I got to the border

A one way ticket's in my hand
Heading for the chosen land
My troubles will all turn to sand
When I get to the border

Salty girl with yellow hair
Waiting in that rocking chair
And if I'm weary I won't care
When I get to the border

Monday morning, monday morning
Closing in on me
I'm packing up and I'm running away
To where nobody picks on me

The dusty road will smell so sweet
Paved with gold beneath my feet
And I'll be dancing down the street
When I get to the border
When I get to the border

Thanks for posting the lyrics.

sublime

Deacon Cassidy with rome

and I'll be dancin' down the street, when I get to the border

Gee, I wonder if Colin Meloy ever heard this song...

Linda sure massacres that chorus...

She played the mandolin on this song - very well too

Not by anyone with ears...

And she played the penny whistle (that was rubbish too, I suppose)

@michael morphites Nonsense!

@michael morphites can't wait to hear your album.

this is the very song i ever heard from Richard Thompson....now i have more that 40 related albums...

My favourite track on one of my favourite albums. The instrumental ending is sublime.

My fave quitting tune along with David Byrne's "A Million Miles Away"

Finally someone posted the original!

Absolute class!

In my personal top 10 since 1997.:)

Indeed seabornlee, that dreadful Canadian version was a sheer travesty. This is the real thing [down where those drunkards roll], a masterpiece from a masterful album

one of the greatest albums ever top 500-folk rock masterpiece inspired radiohead a lot. great music!