Texas 1947 Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]Being[D] six years old,
I had [F]seen some trains before
So it's [G]hard to figure out
what I'm [A]at the depot for
[D]Trains are big and black and smoking,
steam [F]screaming at the wheels
Big[G]ger than anything there is,
at least [A]that's the way she feels
[D]Trains are big[A] and black and smoking,
loud on July 4th
[Am]And [G]everybody's acting like this
[A]might be something more
[D]More than just picking up the mail
Other sol[F]diers from the war
There's [G]something even old man
Wyman nev[A]er seen before
[D]It's a lat[Em]e afternoon
on a hot Texas day
Some strange is going on,
[A]we's all in the [D]way
There's 50,
60 people left [F]sitting on their cars
The [G]old men left their dominoes
[A]and come down from the [D]bars
Everybody's checkin'
Old Jack [F]Kittrell checks his watch
Us [G]kids put our ears to the rails
[A]to hear him pop
[D]We all[A] already know that
They finally said train time
We [G]thought that Jesus Christ himself
was [A]rollin' down the [D]line
But things got real wild
[F]Mama jerked me back
But [G]not before I got a chance
to lay [A]nickel on the [D]track
Look out, here she comes,
she's comin'
Look [G]out, there she goes,
she's gone
[A]Screamin' straight through Texas
like a [G]mad dog cyc[D]lone
[A]Big and red and silver,
she don't make no smoke
She's [G]a fast rollin' streamline
com[A]in' to show the folk[D]s
I said, look out, here she comes,
she's comin'
Look [G]out, there she goes,
she's gone
[A]Screamin' straight through Texas
like a [G]mad dog cyc[D]lone[A][G][A][D]
She left 50, 60 people
[Dm]sitting on the cars
Wonder[G]ing what's coming to
and [A]how it got this [D]far
Aw, but me,
I got a nickel [Dm]smashed flatter than a dime
By a [G]mad dog runaway
red [A]silver stream[D]lined train
Look out, here she comes, she's coming
Look [G]out, there she goes,
she's gone
[A]Screaming straight through Texas
like mad [G]dogs
Cyc[D]lone, [G]big [A]and red and silver,
she don't make no smoke
She's [G]a fast rollin' streamline
com[A]in' showin' folk[D]s
I said, look out, here she comes,
she's comin'
Look [G]out, there she goes,
she's gone
[A]Screamin' straight through Texas
like a [G]mad dog
[D]Cyclone,
look out, here she comes,
she's comin'
[G]Look out, there she goes,
she's gone
[A]Screamin' straight through Texas
like a [G]mad dog
Cyc[D]lone

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 2]
[D]so[G][A][G][D]
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[Dm][G][D]
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!