Key: C major•
Verse 1
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One dark and stormy night,
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while riding down the line,
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Bill, an engineer, said, boy,
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we'll have to fly.
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We've got to be on time
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So I sling the call, we'll make it four
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I'll never ride no more
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While in the rear -box car
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A lonely hobo lay
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Headin' for his mother dear
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on a deathbed lay, he raised a weary hand to brush away a tear,
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and fate was drawing near.
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When through the darkened night,
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Above the roar of a rolling wheel,
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the whistle out did scream.
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As down around the curve,
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this mighty train did roar.
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The black smoke rolling from the stack,
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came fly a number four.
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Then came an awful crash,
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There on the track the hobo lay,
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his days of life were done.
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And as the golden sun sang
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slowly to the west,
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His dear old mother gently smiled
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and closed her eyes in debt.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C A D F...
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