Key: C major
Intro 1
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Eb
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Eb
Verse 1
cried and my
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Bb
mother prayed. I chose blue and my brother gray.
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Eb
Gray stained red on the sharp
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F
end of a long gun
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After
Appomattox I did my best
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Bb
But life went south so I headed west
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Cm
And the horse I chose to
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C
ride on was an iron one
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I heard they needed men to
sweat and steel
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Eb
Fire in the hole
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F
C
you're workin' on the
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C
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Railroad
Dale
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DeLaramie, lost my
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leg, but I learned
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Morse code from a newsman,
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Eb
tapped in the wire, heard the lies, but kept
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C
My secrets cause I realized I liked living and
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C
the graph paid well for a land then
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F
Still I had nowhere to go and
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G
that I had to get there slow
fists in your gut
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Blood on the trail, mud in the ruts
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Eb
Fire in the hole
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Cm
Some make a killing, some get killed
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Long shot digging from the top of the hill
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Cm
You can bet my hands dirty
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F
Eb
C
Eb
build a railroad
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Cm
C
We're building a railroad
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Swing
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G
Swing back down
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Cm
press on the pace
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Cm
Miles and the money, money and the miles
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Eb
Fire in the hole
Freeman, throttle in the beast
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Pay the man needin' most the least
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Cm
C
Eb
tryin' to meet a
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Cm
Eb
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railroad
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Cm
workin' on a railroad
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you
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