Southern Train chords by Brownie McGhee

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Verse 1
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Well, that mean old, mean old southern
Blood that runs through Tennessee
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Well, that mean old southern
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Blood that runs through Tennessee
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Well, it carried my paperweight
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And it blowed back at  homie
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Was that mean ol', mean ol' fireman
And that cruel ol' engineer
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Well, that mean ol' fireman
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And that cruel ol' engineer
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Lord, that was a low
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Lord, that waved that train from here
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Well, that mean old, mean old southern
Lord, that rose through Tennessee
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Well, that mean old southern Lord,
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that rose through Tennessee
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Well, it  carried the woman I love away
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And it blowed back that poor me
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I was standing, I was listening,
at that southern whistle blow
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I was standing, listening,
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at that southern whistle blow
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Well it blowed just like,
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funny it never blowed before
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All right
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Well, the train she was rid ing on,
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boy, it was sixteen coaches long
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Yes, the train she was riding,
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sixteen coaches long
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Lord, I know she was leaving,
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it just kept on blowing on
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Well, my mama, she told me,
and my papa told me too
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Well, my mama, she told me,
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and my papa told me too
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Everybody grins in your face, son,
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well, there ain't no friend of yours
It was that mean old, mean old
Southern blood that rose
through Tennessee
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Well, that mean old southern Lord
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that rose through Tennessee
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Well, it carried the woman I love away
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And it blowed back out for me