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MIm
Now bein' six years old
SOL
I'd seen some trains before,
LA
so it's hard to figure out
SI MIm
what I'm at the depot for.
MIm
Trains are big and black and smokin' steam,
SOL
screamin' at the wheels,
LA
bigger than anything there is,
SI MIm
at least that's the way she feels
SI
Trains are big and black and smokin',
louder than July four,
LA
but everybody's actin' like
SI MIm
this might be somethin' more...
MIm
...than just pickin' up the mail
SOL
or the soldiers from the war,
LA
this is somethin' that even old man Wileman (?)
SI MIm
never seen before.
BRIDGE:
FA#m
And it's late afternoon
on a hot Texas day,
LA
somethin' strange is goin' on
SI MIm
and we's all in the way.
MIm
Well there's fifty or sixty people
SOL
they're just sittin' on their cars,
LA
and the old men left their dominoes
SI MIm
and they come down from the bars.
MIm
Everybody's checkin',
SOL
old Jack Kittrel(?) checked his watch,
LA
and us kids put our ears
SI MIm
to the rails to hear 'em pop.
SI
So we already knowed
when they finally said 'train time'
LA
you'd a-thought that Jesus Christ himself
SI MIm
was rollin' down the line.
MIm
Cuz things got real quiet,
SOL
Momma jerked me back,
LA
not before I'd got the chance
SI MIm
to lay a nickel on the track.
CHORUS
MI
Look out here she comes, she's comin',
LA
Look out there she goes, she's gone,
SI
screamin' straight through Texas
LA MI
like a mad dog cyclone.
SI
Big, red, and silver,
she don't make no smoke,
LA
she's a fast-rollin' streamline
SI MI
come to show the folks.
MI
Look out here she comes, she's comin'
LA
Look out there she goes, she's gone,
SI
screamin' straight through Texas
LA MI
like a mad dog cyclone.
MIm
...Lord, she never even stopped.
MIm
She left fifty or sixty people
SOL
still sittin' on their cars,
LA
and they're wonderin' what it's comin' to
SI MIm
and how it got this far.
MIm
Oh but me I got a nickel smashed
SOL
flatter than a dime
LA
by a mad dog, runaway
SI MIm
red-silver streamline...train
CHORUS
CHORDS ONLY, BY VERSE:
V1:
MIm SOL LA SI MIm
V2:
MIm SOL LA SI MIm
V3:
SI LA SI MIm
V4:
MIm SOL LA SI MIm
Bridge:
FA#m LA SI MIm
V5:
MIm SOL LA SI MIm
V6:
MIm SOL LA SI MIm
V7:
SI LA SI MIm
V8:
MIm SOL LA SI MIm
CHORUS
MI LA SI LA MI
SI LA SI MI
MI LA SI LA MI
MIm
V9:
MIm SOL LA SI MIm
V10:
MIm SOL LA SI MIm
CHORUS
MI LA SI LA MI
SI LA SI MI
MI LA SI LA MI
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