Last Of The Railroad Men chords by Yonder Mountain String Band

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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The first thing
on the list was money
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For a trip to where the train track ends
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Looking for some red dirt and wisdom
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From the last of the railroad men
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They've never been deceived
by a beating heart
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They know a thought is often a lie
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Time takes forever
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and it still goes flying by
She told me that her name was Sunshine
Em 
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And her mama's called Mystery
A 
Born with a taste for honey
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And she don't mind the
sting of the bee
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Fought herself suited for screamin'
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But man, how she loved to sing
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A song about the cross -tie rhythm
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It rocks her baby to sleep
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The ladies look lovely
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and the men make the
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hammers ring
Tried to tell her about my history
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She said you can't walk
backward to victory
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You can hear the same ringing of bells
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Outside the gates of heaven and hell
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So break all the skillets
and sink all your boats
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You better start swimming,
boy, if you can't float
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Across the shore, the light is on
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You cross your own private rubicon
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The wishing well shines,
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have you no ticed
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all your money is gone?
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Thought about running for Reno
She took off having the door
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But the wind will blow
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when the trees will shade
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and a glimpse of love can blind a
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life of pain
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F# 
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I fall in love on Mondays as a tendency
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It might end early
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but it leaves me with my
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weekend spree
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Something about her style
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make you miss your train
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It's like seeing the sun
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when it breaks through the rain
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She doesn't live in any
one place she'd say
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But haunts about a hundred homes
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Out front they do the dancin'
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But the back's where they have the ball
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Once tried to start a rebellion of news
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Suffers the mud, but never the fools
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Hangin' out on the periphery
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Waitin' on Vader's own epiphany
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So I  turned around to face her
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And she showed me the world
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No, no, no promise made
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But the wind will blow
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and the trees will shade
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And a glimpse of love
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can find a life of pain
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A few steps forward right into the sun
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A few steps back, one night of fun
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Try to stay under the look of the law
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Try to climb over the Pinewood Bar
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Show up a stranger, leave as a guest
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With a prayer for the damned
and one for the blessed
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She was the only daughter
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of the last of the railroad men
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The only daughter
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of the last of the railroad men
to get through it one time.