Key: C major•
Intro 1
C
F
Gm
G
Gm
C
Verse 1
C
Willie
He hustled back for fifty years
C
F
From overalls and cotton fields,
His life was made to roll on rails
C
F
His old Pat never got so far
While Hewley he's seen shooting stars
C
F
He loved the gentle rolling sway
He knew his calling from the day
G
C
That he first saw a train
From Portland to Miami sand
There's nothing like a train
C
F
how the rails were laid by hand
G
C
knew he was a railroad man
They could have taken one apart,
but they never let him try
G
C
F
He said, we all have a gift to you
Some drive the train,
The engineer may get folks there,
C
F
He always spoke about the time
Woodrow Wilson rode the line
he carried till he died
C
F
when someone laid a quarter in his hand
G
C
Muley was a railroad man
F
C
F
G
Gm
C
explaining throttles,
C
wheels and gears to her taker for the train museum
at the Dallas County Fair.
G
C
F
He'd tell you how the whistles blew,
When he got to heaven,
died in Fort Smith, Arkansas
a double eagle for his fare
C
F
he'll have my bags in hand
G
C
Muley was a railroad man
C
F
G
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC F Gm G
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