Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
Verse 2
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I am just an Indian and once
Now it's been taking from me by
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the coming of a white man
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Em
hot and heavy in my veins
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coming of the trains.
Verse 3
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in the year of '69
As we heard the whistle blowing
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somewhere down the line
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Frank and Jesse James
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the going of the trains.
Verse 4
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ground was cracked and dry
We just had to have some water or
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our crops would surely die
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we finally got some rain
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and the going of the trains.
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Verse 5
I lived behind these iron bars I'm
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a prisoner doing time
And I've heard that midnight freight
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pass at least the thousand times
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the door and back again
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the going of the trains.
Verse 6
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and trains're all I know
Ah they don't want me anymore and
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they say that I'm too old
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helps to ease my pain
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Verse 7
The trucks and planes're faster now
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and the railroad is too slow
And they just came and told me
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that my railroad has to go
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The hands that built the railroad through
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sweat and blood and pain
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the going of the trains.
Verse 8
Outro 1
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