The Ballad Of Ragtime Texas chords by The Terraplanes Blues Band

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Well, they

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Ragtime Texas
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Henry Thomas was his name
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He spent his whole life traveling West
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Memphis down to New Orleans
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He was a dusty
mountain of a man,
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and he stood over six feet tall
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But he slept under the Union Bridge
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the night before
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But when I saw him at the station,
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standing by the red light
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He took the last train home
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rolling down the Delta line
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And he rambled all around
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from the barrel house to the Duke
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He's just hollering out his Mississippi Hill country blues
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Well, they call him
Ragtime Texas
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Henry Thomas was his name
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He spent his whole life hoboing Missis
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sippi down Louisiana
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But when I saw him at the station
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standing by the red light
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He took the last train home
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rolling down the Delta line
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Now he's gone in the night
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through the storm to the light
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Lead me on, Ragtime Texas,
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take me home
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Now he's gone in the night
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Through the storm to the light
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Leave me on, ragtime Texas,
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take me home