Now bein' six years old
GI'd seen some trains before,
Aso it's hard to figure out
what I'm at the depot for.
Trains are big and black and smokin' steam,
Gscreamin' at the wheels,
Abigger than anything there is,
at least that's the way she feels
Trains are big and black and smokin',
louder than July four,
Abut everybody's actin' like
this might be somethin' more...
...than just pickin' up the mail
Gor the soldiers from the war,
Athis is somethin' that even old man Wileman (?)
never seen before.
BRIDGE:
F#mAnd it's late afternoon
on a hot Texas day,
Asomethin' strange is goin' on
B Emand we's all in the way.
Em
Well there's fifty or sixty people
they're just sittin' on their cars,
Aand the old men left their dominoes
B Emand they come down from the bars.
Em
Everybody's checkin',
old Jack Kittrel(?) checked his watch,
Aand us kids put our ears
B Emto the rails to hear 'em pop.
B
So we already knowed
when they finally said 'train time'
Ayou'd a-thought that Jesus Christ himself
B Emwas rollin' down the line.
Em
Cuz things got real quiet,
Momma jerked me back,
Anot before I'd got the chance
B Emto lay a nickel on the track.
CHORUS
Look out here she comes, she's comin',
ALook out there she goes, she's gone,
Bscreamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog cyclone.
BBig, red, and silver,
she don't make no smoke,
she's a fast-rollin' streamline
B Ecome to show the folks.
ELook out here she comes, she's comin'
Look out there she goes, she's gone,
Bscreamin' straight through Texas
A Elike a mad dog cyclone.
Em
...Lord, she never even stopped.
Em
She left fifty or sixty people
still sittin' on their cars,
Aand they're wonderin' what it's comin' to
B Emand how it got this far.
Em
Oh but me I got a nickel smashed
flatter than a dime
Aby a mad dog, runaway
B Emred-silver streamline...train
CHORUS
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V2:
Em G A B EmV3:
B A B EmV4:
Bridge:
F#m A B Em
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V6:
Em G A B EmV7:
B A B EmV8:
CHORUS
E A B A EB A B E
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V10:
Em G A B EmCHORUS
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