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The Little Engine That Could chords by
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Key: Ab major•
Verse 1
Ab
Ab
4

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There was a little railroad train with
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Db
4

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Ab
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loads and loads of toys

All starting out to find a home with
Eb
Eb
6

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Bb
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Eb
Eb
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little girls and boys
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Ab
4

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And as that little rail road train
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began to chug along
Bb
Bb

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The little engine up in front was
Eb
Eb
6

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heard to sing this song
Verse 2
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Ab
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Choo choo, choo choo, choo choo, choo choo,

I feel so good today
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Eb
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Oh, clear the track, oh clickety
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Ab
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clack, I? ll go my merry way
Verse 3
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Ab
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The little train went roaring on, so fast,
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it seemed to fly

Until it reached a mountain
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Bb

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Eb
6

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rising almost to the sky
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4

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The little engine moaned and groaned
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and huffed and puffed away
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But halfway to the top it just gave
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up and seemed to say
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I can ? t go on, I can? t
Verse 4
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Ab
4

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Eb
Eb
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go on, I? m weary as can be

I can? t go on, I can? t go on, this
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job is not for me
Verse 5
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The toys got out to push but all in vain alas,
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alack

And then a great big engine came
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Bb

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a whistling down the track
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They asked if it would kindly
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pull them up the mountain side
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Bb

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But with a high and mighty

sneer it scornfully replied
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Eb
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Don? t
Verse 6
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bother me, don? t bother
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me to pull the likes of you

Don? t bother me, don? t bother me, I?
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ve better things to do
Verse 7
Eb
Eb
6

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The toys all started crying? cause that
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engine was so mean

And then there came another one,
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the smal lest ever seen
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But though it seemed that she could
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hardly pull herself along
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She hitched on to the train and as she
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pulled she sang this song
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I think I can, I think I can, I
Verse 8
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Eb
Eb
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think I have a plan

And I can do 'most anything if
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I only think I can
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Then up that great big mountain with the cars
Verse 9

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all full of toys

And soon they reached the waiting arms
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Eb
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of happy girls and boy
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And though that ends the story
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it will do you lots of good
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To take a lesson from the
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little engine that could
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Just think you
Verse 10

can, just think you

can, just have that understood
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And very soon you? ll start to
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say, I always knew I could
Verse 11
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Ab
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I knew I could, I knew I could, I knew I could I

knew I could, I knew I could, I

knew I could, I knew I could

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ChordsAb Db Eb Bb

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    4

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    6

  • Bb

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Chords

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