Key: E minor•
Verse 1
a black railroad engine
in the children's park at rest,
and the track crossing with
Em
carrying autos west from Dallas, Delaware
and Hudson gondolas filled with power stuff,
Bm
Em
a line of boxcars far east as I can see
loading ships on the Pacific, Oakland, Harmony,
C
Em
E
Terminal, Lights, Blue, Illumined all night now.
G
C
and the great American train moves on carrying
followed by passive Wabash
C
rolling behind.
Em
truck
proclaiming the right way,
concluding the awesome poem
Bm
Em
written by the train across northern Kansas,
land which gave right of way
to the massing of metal
meant for explosion in Indochina.
electric machinery
G
D
Em
paper signs blowing in cold wind,
G#dim
mid -Sunday's afternoon silence in town,
E
C
under a frost -gray sky
that covers the horizon,
an outer universe invisible, unknown,
Em
E
one human form.
When a woman's heart bursts
a woman screams equal in Hanoi.
On to Wichita to prophesy,
Oh, frightful bard,
where anxiety rings the university
D
Em
with million air pressure.
Lonely, cranked telephone voices
Little girls suspecting their elders of
Em
murder committed by remote con trol machinery.
Boys with sexual bellies aroused,
D
C
chilled in the heart by the mailman with a letter from an aging,
white -haired general,
service in death war.
Em
C
Oh, this black language written by machine.
Oh, hopeless fathers
and teachers in Hue.
Do you know the same woe,
C
too?
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