Key: Db major
Verse 1
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All around the water tank,
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A thousand miles away from home,
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just a -sleepin' in the rain
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to give him a line
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You said, if you've got money,
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well, I'll see that you don't walk.
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Get off, get off,
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Am
you railroad bomb
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Then he slammed the boxcar door
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Em
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Dm
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He put me off in Texas
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Wide open spaces all around me,
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the moon and stars up above
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I'm on my way from Frisco,
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going back to Dixieland
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an d my heart is filled with pain.
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I'm a thousand miles away from home,
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just waiting for a train
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to yodel -a -hee, yodel -a -hee,
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yodel -a -hee.
I come from a little town called
Southend
and it's a little town in the southern
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South Australia.
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There was only about 30 people there when I was a kid and
just me and my sister
we were the only children.
The rest were smelly old fishermen,
including my dad.
And he's still there,
mum and dad are still there,
and I get back there quite often.
And my dad was a lobster fisherman,
and my grandfather was a lobster fisherman,
and his dad was a lobster fisherman,
and my brothers are all lobster fishermen,
and my sisters are all married
to lobster fishermen.
So I think I've got it in the blood.
This is my story.
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