Ballad for a friend chords by 
Bob Dylan 
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Key: Ab major•
Verse 1
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Sad I'm sittin' on
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the rail road track,
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Watchin' that old smokestack.
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Train is a- leavin' but
Verse 2
it won't be back.
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Years ago we hang around,
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Watchin' trains roll through the town.
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Now that train is a- graveyard
bound.
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Verse 3
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Where we go up in that North coun try,
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Lakes and streams an d mines so free,
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I had no better friend than he.
Verse 4
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Something happene d to him that day,
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I thought I heard a stranger say,
I hung my head and stole away.
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A diesel
Verse 5
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truck was head in' down,
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Pullin' down a heavy load.
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It left him on a Utah road.
Verse 6
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They carried him back to his home town,
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His mother cried, his sister moaned,
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Listenin' to them church bells tone.
Verse 7
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A diesel truck was rollin' slow,
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Pullin' down a heavy load.
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And it left him on a Utah road.
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