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East Texas Red chords by 
Tom Russell
Intro 1
D
A
G
D
G
D
Verse 1
D
Down in
the scrub oak country
G
D
To the southeast Texas Gulf
There used to ride a brakeman,
A
A brakeman double tough.
D
He worked the town of Kilgore,
G
D
G
And Long view twelve miles down,
And the travelers all said
D
G
Bm
Little East Texas Red
A
D
He was the meanest bull around.
Verse 2
D
If you rode by night or the broad daylight
G
D
In the wintery wind or the sun,
You would always see little East
Texas Red
G
Em
Just a sportin' his smooth-
G
A
runnin' gun.
D
And the tale got switched down
G
the stems and mains,
A
D
And everybody said
G
That the meanest bull
Bm
On them shiney irons
A
D
Was that little East Texas Red.
Verse 3
D
It was on a cold and a windy
morn'
G
D
It was along towards nine or ten,
A couple of boys on the
hunt of a job
G
Em
D
A
They stood that blizzardy wind.
D
Hungry and cold they
knocked on the doors
G
D
Of the workin' people around
G
For a piece of meat
Bm
A
And a carrot or spud just
D
a boil of stew around.
Verse 4
D
East Texas Red come down the line
G
And he swung off that old
D
number two.
He kicked their bucket over a bush
G
Em
G
A
And he dumped out all of their stew.
D
The travelers said, "Little East Texas Red,
G
D
You better get your business straight
G
Cause you're gonna ride
Bm
A
Your little black train just one
D
year from today."
Verse 5
D
Well Red he laughed and he
climbed the bank
G
D
And he swung on the side of a wheeler,
The boys caught a tanker to Seminole
G
A
Then west to Amarillo.
D
They caught them a job of oil- field work
G
D
And followed a pipeline down.
G
Bm
It took them lots of places
A
Before that year
Had rolled around.
D
Verse 6
Then on a cold and windy day
G
D
They caught them a Gulf- bound train.
They shivered and shook with the
dough in their clothes
G
Em
G
A
To the scrub oak flats again,
D
With their warm suits of clothes
and overcoats
G
D
They walked into a store.
G
They paid that man
Bm
For some meat and stuff
A
D
Just a boil of stew once more.
Verse 7
D
The ties they tracked down
that cinder dump
G
D
And they come to the same old spot
Where East Texas Red just a year ago
G
Em
G
A
Had dumped their last stew pot.
D
Well, the smoke of their fire went
higher and higher
G
D
And Red come down the line.
With his head tucked low
in the wintery wind
Em
A
He waved old number nine.
D
He walked on down
through the jungle yard
G
D
And he came to the same old spot
G
And there was the same
Bm
two men again
G
A
D
Around that same stew pot.
Verse 8
D
Red went to his knee's
and he hollered
G
A
D
"Please, don't pull your trigger on me.
I did not get my business straight."
Em
A
But he did not get his say.
D
A gun wheeled out of an overcoat
G
A
D
And it played that old one two,
G
And Red was dead when
Bm
the other two men
A
D
Sat down to eat their stew.
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