Railroad Spikes chords by Graham Parker And The Rumour
Verse 1
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D
I was
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just out of school
where I didn't learn much
Looking for a job there
wasn't much as such
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Gave me a work on the family law
G
When the railroads came
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just before the war
G
D
G
I had a city and couldn't ask for more
I hammered those spikes out of molten ore
And Union Pacific was
screamin' for more
Shoulders got bigger,
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my back got strong
Em
G
Em
G
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Swing that hammer all day long
Eb
G
D
And the trains kept a -rollin'
G
and the work went on
D
Railroad spikes, railroad spikes
Em
Hammer, hammer,
G
C
hammer those railroad spikes
G
D
Railroad spikes, railroad spikes
C
G
D
G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, spikes
The old canals went right out of date
Along with penny fathoms
and wooden plates
Things started moving at
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incredible speed
Em
G
Like a locomotive fueled
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G
Eb
on greed
D
G
Exploit the world to get what you need
All the families,
ladies and the gentlemen, friends
In the Pullman cars comin'
round the bend
The men kept working
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Cm
twenty -four hours
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Em
G
Em
G
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G
Pounding their steel and metal plows
Eb
D
They grew like weeds in the
G
summer showers
D
Railroad spikes, railroad spikes
Em
Hammer, hammer,
G
C
hammer those railroad spikes
G
D
Railroad spikes, railroad spikes
C
G
D
G
Eb
Cm
G
Ooh, railroad spikes
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G
Eb
Cm
G
Eb
G
D
G
D
G
They were perfect, nice, out sleek
Just like snowflakes, out unique
Cm
They laid those tracks all over the land
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Em
North and south through
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the Rio Grande
D
Henry Ford had other plans
G
They took that metal and melted it down
For boats and planes and artillery rounds
Some of that metal made
bullets for sure
Railroad spikes might have won the war
Then you started dying
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for something you could feel
Em
G
Eb
Creeping up upon you on four wheels
D
G
It's the final blow as the autumn all be
D
G
Final blow as the autumn all be
D
River of Spice, River of Spice
Em
Hammer, Hammer, Hammer goes
C
River of Spice
G
D
River of Spice, River of Spice
C
G
Ooh, ooh, ooh
D
River of Spice, River of Spice
Em
Hammer, Hammer, Hammer goes
C
River of Spice
G
D
River of Spice, River of Spice
C
G
Ooh, ooh, ooh
D
G
D
G
Hammer, spikes
Hammer, hammer,
hammer those railroad spikes
D
G
Hammer, hammer,
D
G
those railroad spikes
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Cm
G
Hammer, those
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Cm
railroad spikes
G
Ebaug
G
Hammer,
Hammer, hammer, hammer,
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G
Cm
G
who's with the spikes?
Hammer, hammer, hammer,
G
Eb
Cm
G
who's there with the spikes?
Cm
G
Ham mer, who's there with
G
G
the spikes?
Hammer, hammer, who's with the spikes?
Railroad Spikes
Graham Parker And The Rumour
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