Eight Wheel Driver chords by Edwin Bruce

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Eight wheel driver,
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big old engines made of steel
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Eight wheel driver,
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got eight big driving wheels
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When I was young
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I used to wander down
through the railroad yard
I'd listen to the tales the engineers told
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and I never would get tired
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Tellin' about old Casey Jones
and the big A -Wheel, the hero
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Never heard a tale of him
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or the glory row he holds
Since then it's been a many a year,
but still I hear those tales
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I've been on sixteen years
of ridin' these shiny rails
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Got my own big A -Wheel,
ridin', ridin', ridin' for the I .C.
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When I get in that cab,
I'm in one world with just my twin and
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me
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One night I just hauled out of Memphis,
draggin' a mighty big load
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I could tell that something was awful wrong
by the way those drivers rolled
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Then I heard a whistle scream,
but it sounded far away
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Thought it must have been a dream,
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I was only scared to let it wait
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Out in the darkness of the night,
I saw the ghost train light
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And I  knew old Casey's ghost
was right there by my side
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Then I  heard him say to me,
there ain't no bridge ahead
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If you don't throttle back your
big eight -wheeler,
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boy, you'll soon be dead
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Now God gives you a guardian angel
to stay close by your side
That old Casey must be mine
or else that night I would have died
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Went to my railroad and there's a rover
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and I go to my new home I'll find Casey up there
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drivin' his big eight -wheeler on
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Eight -wheel driver,
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big ol' Lincoln made of steel
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Eight -wheel driver,
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got a big drivin' wheel
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Eight -wheel driver,  big ol' engine,
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big ol' A rear driver, got a big driving wheel
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