The Santa Fe At Midnight chords by Tom Russell

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Verse 1
Bm 
Look at that headlight
G 
Am 
shining through the rain
C 
Well it must be that old
Santa
G 
D 
G 
Fe freight train
I'm standing on salty old tile on
Bm 
an old adobe porch
C 
Across the street, the
Baptist church,
D 
G 
God's own neon torch.
Bm 
Well my baby's sleepin' safe inside,
I'm the shadow, she's the light.
C 
Now here comes the sound of the
D 
Santa
G 
Fe at midnight.
Baby wakes up and calls to me, what
Bm 
is that lonesome sound?
C 
It echoes off the mountain,
D 
G 
out near the lights of town
I say, hush now,
Bm 
I'll come to you, oh de  woe, so tight
C 
And rock you to the sound of the
D 
Santa
G 
Fe at midnight
C 
Blowing through those
F 
C 
cotton fields near the
Canateo
G 
River breaks
Em 
Bm 
Past the shanty towns of old
F 
Walrath, the
Eagle and the
D 
Snake
C 
Blowing across
West
D 
Em 
Texas, rattling our home site
G 
The music of the
D 
Santa
C 
Fe at midnight
Em 
I'm making love to the sound of the
D 
Santa
G 
C 
Bm 
Am 
Fe at midnight
C 
Bm 
D 
G 
Well, look where we have ended up
Bm 
On the edge of the great southwest
C 
Staring at those restless trees along
D 
G 
the water ditch.
And up the street the
Rio
Grande like
Bm 
Egypt's old
Blue
Nile,
C 
With a memory of the early ones who
Bm 
G 
rested here a while.
But now the freight trains and long -haul trucks,
Bm 
they're passing through.
C 
And they don't have the urge to
D 
G 
wink at the likes of me and you
Gm 
It's all just diesel smoke, iron rail,
G 
Bm 
and a running string of lights
C 
The music of the
D 
Santa
G 
Fe at midnight
C 
Blowing through those
F 
C 
cotton fields near the
Canateo
G 
River breaks
Em 
Bm 
Past the shanty towns of old
F 
D 
Juarez, the eagle and the snake
C 
Blowing across
West
D 
Em 
Texas, rattling out of sight
G 
The music of the
D 
Santa
C 
Fe at midnight
Em 
Making love to the sound of the
Bm 
Santa
D 
G 
C 
Bm 
Fe at midnight
Am 
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C 
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Bm 
D 
G 
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Thank you.