Key: C major
Verse 1
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F
F#dim
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A
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On a
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Am
dark stormy night,
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Am
as a train rolled along,
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F
the passengers had gone to bed.
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Am
with a babe in his arm s,
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G
sat there with bowed down head.
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B
C
The innocent one began crying,
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A
make that child stop its noise,
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G
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it's keeping us all awake.
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Am
don't keep it in here,
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we paid for our birth and want rest.
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As he fondled it close to his breast
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Am
Oh, where is its mother,
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oh, take it to her
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F
A lady then softly said
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G
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But she's dead in the coach ahead
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C
While the train rolled onward,
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G
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just a few short years
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Baby's face brings pictures
F#dim
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A
But baby's cries can't waken her
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In the baggage called Jaheir
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Am
Every eye filled with tears
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when his story he told
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Of a wife who was faithful and true
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To build a little love nest just for two
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his sweet little babe,
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Her young happy lives it was blessed.
His heart seemed to break
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A
when he mentioned her name,
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And in tears tried to tell them the rest.
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Every woman arose to assist
And seeing the little one
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sleeping in peace
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or any thought of pain
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Next morning at the station
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he bid all them goodbye
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God bless you, he softly said
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Of the baggage coach ahead
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While the train rolled onward,
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just a few short years
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Baby's face brings pictures
F#dim
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A
But baby's cries can't waken her
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In the baggage called Cheyenne
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