Railroad Spikes chords by 
Graham Parker And The Rumour 
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Key: A major•
Verse 1
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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
Faug
Gave me a work on the fam ily law
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When the railroads came
Faug
just be fore the war
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E
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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
F#m
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F#m
A
Faug
Swing that hammer all day long
F
A
E
An d the trains kept a -rollin'
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and the work went on
E
Railroad spikes, rail road spikes
F#m
Hammer , hammer,
A
D
hammer those railroad spikes
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E
Rail road spikes, railroad spikes
D
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E
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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The old canals went right out of date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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incred ible speed
F#m
A
Like a locomotive fueled
Faug
A
F
on greed
E
A
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
Faug
Dm
twenty -four hours
Faug
F#m
A
F#m
A
Faug
A
Pound ing their steel and metal plows
F
E
They grew like weeds in the
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summer shower s
E
Railroad spikes, rail road spikes
F#m
Hammer , hammer,
A
D
hammer those railroad spikes
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E
Rail road spikes, rail road spikes
D
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E
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F
Dm
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Oo h, rail road spikes
Faug
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F
Dm
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F
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E
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They were perfect, nice, out sleek
Just like snowflakes, out unique
Dm
They laid those tracks all over the land
Faug
F#m
North and south through
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the Rio Grande
E
Henry Ford had other plans
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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
Faug
for something you could feel
F#m
A
F
Creep ing up upon you on four wheels
E
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It's the final blow as the autumn all be
E
A
Fi nal blow as the autumn all be
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River of Spice, River of Spice
F#m
Hammer , Hammer, Hammer goes
D
River of Spice
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E
River of Spice, River of Spice
D
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Ooh, ooh, ooh
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River of Spice, River of Spice
F#m
Hammer , Hammer, Hammer goes
D
River of Spice
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E
River of Spice, River of Spice
D
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Oo h, ooh, ooh
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E
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Hammer, spikes
Hammer, hammer,
hammer those railroad spikes
E
A
Ham mer, hammer,
E
A
those railroad spikes
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Dm
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Hammer, those
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Dm
railroad spikes
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Faug
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Hammer ,
Hammer, hammer, hammer,
F
A
Dm
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who's with the spikes?
Hammer, hammer, hammer,
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F
Dm
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who's there with the spikes?
Dm
A
Ham mer, who's there with
A
A
the spikes?
Hammer, hammer, who's with the spikes?
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