Telling Stories chords by Will Beeley

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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The smell of rain in the summer
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always takes me back
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When my grandfather'd take me
Gm 
G 
to the railroad tracks
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G 
Tellin' stories, hoppin' freight trains
and goin' west
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Cm 
He'd tell me these stor
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ies when I was down
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About ramblin' through
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some dusty town
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And lay me in the big old tree
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Gm 
C 
by the river's edge
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C 
Tellin' stories when he was a kid
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And   rain was the only
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Cm 
thing that he hid from
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Still see him smilin' at
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C 
those old days
Em 
Tellin' me stories as the train rolled by
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D 
Final click of the track,
we'd wave goodbye
Dm 
D 
Stop and listen to the whistle
Dm 
as it rolls away
D 
F 
Well, the summer's past
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G 
like the click of the track
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Grandpa took a train that
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ain't comin' back
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G 
I still see him lyin' by
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the river's edge
Cm 
C 
Every time I say a  phrase,
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I expect to see him
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Sittin' in a boxcar with
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G 
a chest of  cat grass
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G 
Livin' out new stories and
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F 
headin' west
Cm 
Tellin' stories when he was a kid
Gm 
F 
And rain was the only thing
C 
Cm 
C 
that he hid from
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C 
Still see him smilin' at those old days
Em 
Tellin' many stories as the train rolled by
D 
The final click of the track,
we'd wave goodbye
Dm 
Stop and listen to the whistle as it rolls away
D 
Dm 
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G 
Gm 
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Cm 
Gm 
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Cm 
Telling stories of when he was a   kid
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Gm 
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And   rain was the only
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thing that he hid from
F 
I still see him smilin' by
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the river's edge
Em 
And every man's story's
as a train rolled by
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The final click of the track
that waved goodbye
Stop and listen to the whistle as it rolls
Dm 
D 
Dm 
D 
Dm 
away
D 
Stop and listen to the whistle
Dm 
C 
as it rolls away
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