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Texas, 1947 easy guitar chords by 
Guy Clark
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Verse 1
G
D
Now bein' six years old,
F
Dm
F
I had seen some trains before
G
So it's hard to figure out
A
D
what I'm at the depot for
Verse 2
D
Trains are big and black and smokin'
Dm
F
- steam screamin' at the wheels
G
Bigger than anything they is,
A
D
at least that's the way she feels
Verse 3
A
Trains are big and black and smokin',
louder'n July four,
G
But everybody's actin' like this
A
D
might be somethin' more...
Verse 4
D
Than just pickin' up the mail,
F
Dm
or the soldiers from the war
F
G
This is somethin' that even old man
A
D
Wileman never seen before
Verse 5
Em
And it's late afternoon
on a hot Texas day
Somethin' strange is goin' on,
A
D
and we's all in the way
Verse 6
D
Well there's fifty or sixty people they're
Dm
just sittin' on their cars
D
And the old men left their dominos and they
A
D
come down from the bars
Verse 7
D
Everybody's checkin',
old Jack Kittrel check his watch
And us kids put our ears to the
A
D
rails to hear 'em pop
Verse 8
A
So we already knowed it,
when they finally said 'train time'
G
You'd a-thought that Jesus Christ
A
D
his-self was was rollin' down the line
Verse 9
D
'Cause things got real quiet,
Dm
momma jerked me back
Dsus4
D
But not before I'd got the chance to
A
D
lay a nickel on the track
Verse 10
D
[Chorus:]
Look out here she comes, she's
G
comin'
Look out there she goes,
she's gone,
A
Screamin' straight through Texas
G
D
Like a mad dog cyclone
A
Big, red, and silver
Verse 11
She don't make no smoke
G
She's a fast-rollin' streamline
streamline
A
D
G
A
Come to show the
G
folks
Interlude 1
D
A
G
Gm
G
A
D
[Chorus:]
Verse 12
D
Lord, she never even stopped
She left fifty or sixty people still
F
Dm
sittin' on their cars
G
And they're wonderin'
what it's comin' to
A
D
An d how it got this far
Verse 13
D
Oh but me I got a nickel
F
Dm
smashed flatter than a dime
F
G
A
By a mad dog, runaway red-silver streamline...train
D
Outro 1
G
A
G
D
A
G
A
D
G
A
G
D
G
A
G
D
G
A
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