Mark Knopfler, Telegraph Road, until wartime before the escalation

Mark Knopfler, Telegraph Road, until wartime before the escalation Lyrics by AngoloTesti: A long time ago, came a man on a track walking thirty miles with a sack on his back. And he put down his load where he thought it was the best, he made a home in the West, he built a cabin and a winter store and he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore and the other travellers came riding down the track and they never went further and they never went back, then came the churches then came the schools, then came the lawyers then came the rules then came the trains and the trucks with their loads and the dirty old track was the telegraph road Then came the mines - then came the ore, then there were the hard times then there was a war, telegraph sang a song about the world outside, telegraph road got so deep and so wide, like a rolling