Key: F major
Intro 1
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Ab
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Ab
Cm
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Bbsus4
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Bbsus4
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Ab
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Bbsus4
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Verse 1
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I was standing out back as the sun sank on down.
I was thinking to myself about a
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long distant sound,
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Dm
How the fury and the flame
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Eb
burned so bright
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Eb
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Cm
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slow moving train.
Verse 2
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from the West to the East ,
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With the hopes of a nation
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Fsus4
Gm
of salvation and peace,
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Fm
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All the people came out and they
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stood by the tracks,
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Gm
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F
Ab
As the slow moving train took him back.
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Eb
F
It was
Verse 3
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of a time and a place,
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C
F
youth'ssmiling face,
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Ddim
The beginning of a lesson
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we're still learning today,
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Fsus4
F
Since he left on the slow
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Cm
moving train.
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On that
Verse 4
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Eb
from the sea to the sea,
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Fm
All the peoplecame out,
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Fsus4
the men took off their hats,
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Gm
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Ab
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Gm
As that slow moving train took him back.
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Bbsus4
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Gbdim
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Verse 5
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Edim
I wonder where would we be,
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if the bullets had failed,
If the young men with dreams
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C
Just a shot from the darkness and
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the whole world was changed,
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Gsus4
They sent him home on
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a slow moving train.
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Dm
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On a
Verse 6
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G
Am
vation and peace,
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Gm
D
All the people came out and
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they stood by the tracks,
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Am
F#dim
G
C
As the slow moving train
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Adim
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took him back.
Verse 7
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He went home on that slow moving
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train.
(John Keller Tonio K)
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