October In The Railroad Earth chords by Tom Russell
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Verse 1
(C major) And the freight trains still roll
with (G major) their cannonball soul
From Chicago (C major) to the
stockyards (G major) of Fort Worth
All the way (C minor) out to (C major) Frisco's
(G major) end (B minor) of land sadness
Oc (G major) to ber (A minor) in the railroad (G major) earth (D major)
October in (F major) the (D major) railroad earth (G major)
Jack Kerouac gettin' high on a fifth
of Cheap Toe K,
Skid Row Alley, Howard and (D major) Third
His shadow on the shades
near the Southern Pacific Station
October in the railroad earth (G major)
Old bums with tattoos from Singapore
Boxcars, iron wheels giving birth (D major)
Flophouse afternoons of old
warped wood America
October in the railroad earth
(G major) Out where the freight (C major) trains still roll
With their (G major) cannonballs sold
Chica (C major) go to the stockyards of Fort (G major) Worth
All the (C major) way out to Frisco
and that (B minor) Inverland set
Verse 2
October (A minor) in the Railroader (D major)
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Verse 3
October (F major) in the (D major) Rail (G major) roader
Verse 4
Jack's (G major) Bible on his desk
near the peanut butter jar
Verse 5
His notebook (G major) with those
beat poet (D major) ic words
Verse 6
Raisin (D major) bread and oatmeal,
coffee on a hot plate
Verse 7
October (D major) in the Railroader (G major)
Verse 8
Jack (G major) hits the morning alley
with his brakeman's Leonard
He stares at a hooker
in a polka -dotted skirt (D major)
Three eggs for a dime
and that lumberjack stew
October in the railroad (G major) er
October (C major) in the (D major) railroader (G major)
What's that (C major) thing called
fame (D major) really worth? (G major)
Light a (C major) candle for his (D major) soul
in some old (G major) Mexican church (C major)
Octo (G major) ber in the (D major) railroad,
(G major) and you talk (D major)
(G major)
(D major)
(G major)
Well, Jack bottoms out in Big Sur
Up in Ferlinghetti's cab
Tries to hitchhike,
but drivers swerve and (D major) curse
His wife is taking him sewing
To pay his bills and his bar tab
October in the railroad earth (G major)
Jack is gone in October
Sixty -two dollars in the bank
And he's buried near
the place of his birth (D major)
Gettin' beat up outside of bars
Passin' out in cars
He left his blood soaked
in the railroad earth (G major)
Octo (C major) ber in the (D major) railroad earth (G major)
What's that (C major) thing called
fame (D major) really (G major) worth?
Light a (C major) candle for his (D major) soul
In some old (G major) Mexicali (C major) church
Octo (G major) ber in the (D major) Railroader (G major)
Out where the (C major) freight trains still roll
With their (G major) cannonballs sold
Chica (C major) go to the stockyards of Fort (G major) Worth
All the (C major) way out to Frisco and
that (B minor) interland sadness
October (A minor) in the Rail (D major) roader
October (F major) in the (D minor) Rail (G major) roader
On the road, Dharma Buns, Tristesa
Visions of Cody, Mexico City
Blues, Big Sur (D major)
Book of Dreams, Dr. Sax,
Lonesome Traveler, Some of the Dots
October in the Railroader (G major)
Desolation Angels,
Visions of Girard,
Town in the City,
Subterraneans, (D major) Big Sur
Visions of Cody,
the hippos were boiled in their tanks, yeah
October in the rail (G major) roader
Desolation angels
Visions of Gerard
The (D major) town and the city
The subterraneans
Dr. Sacks
Vision (G major) s of coal
Thank
October In The Railroad Earth
Tom Russell
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