Key: A major
Verse 1
Em
D
C
G
D
G
When I first
C
G
come around to this city
G
D
Em
D
Took a job from a man
C
G
with some coin in his hand
Am
D
But the job put the law on my back
C
G
to the courthouse
C
G
And the judge didn't like me at all
D
Em
D
Ninety days in a cell,
C
G
and he fined me as well
C
D
Left me in here behind these old walls
C
G
I remember back workin' the rails
D
Em
D
When the cale gave a shout,
C
G
and the hammers rang out
D
G
Now it's only this old city jail
C
G
The life, it was tough, I can tell ya,
C
G
And the going got rough as could be.
D
Em
D
But a dollar a day,
C
G
put a nip in your take,
Am
D
It was better than working for free.
G
C
G
When I went to my rest in the evening,
G
D
Em
D
Now the light from the lamp
C
G
and the smell of the damp
C
D
Are all that are left of me instead
G
D
G
I wish I were out on the railway
C
G
I remember back working the bares
D
Em
D
When the cale gave a shout
C
G
and the hammers rang out
D
G
C
G
C
G
D
Em
Now it's only this old city jail
D
C
G
Am
D
G
D
G
C
G
D
Em
D
C
G
D
G
C
G
I dream now, I dream of the en gines
C
G
Pulling by me in elegant style
D
Em
D
And the sound of the mall,
C
G
the old work whistles call
Am
D
And the four hundred rails to the mile
G
C
G
I think of the old generation
C
G
D
Of the crews and the tri -level cars
Em
D
How I wish I were back
C
G
on that old northern track
C
D
And to hell with these rusty old bars,
C
G
I remember back working the rails
D
Em
D
When McHale gave a shout,
G
D
G
Now it's only the Soul City Jail
Em
D
When McHale gave a shout,
C
G
and the hammers rang out,
G
Em
D
C
G
D
G
Jail
You
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