Title: Trains Make Me Lonesome
Album: Holding My Own

(capo 2)

E                          B7            E
I was five years old when daddy started packing
      A                              E
And I stood there by my mama as she cried
       A 
And the next thing that we knew
          E                  C#m
Some ole train came passing threw
     F#                        B7
And daddy got on board and we ain't seen him no more

(chorus)
 E            B7             E  (E,F#,Ab single chord)   
I wonder why trains make me lonesome
 A                                E (E,F#,Ab)
It happens every time that engine moan some
   A                                 E                 C#m
And I hear that whistle blow and it makes my heart sink low
     F#            B7            A        E
And I wonder why trains make me lonesome

E                                B7                E
It was a cold dark night when I drove her to the deeple
   A                                            E
There was tears in my eyes and a ticket in her hand
 A
And as we stood there by those tracks
            E             C#M
I knew she wasn't coming back
 F#                               B7 
So I turned and walked away but I still miss her today

(repeat chorus)

(bridge)

C#m                                     E
This office building looks like central station
 C#m                                  E (E,F#,Ab single)
Those ink spots look like Engine number 9
Am7
And this couch on which I lay 
             E            C#m
Supposed to hawl my blues away
             F#
And that old pipe that you keep toking
            B7
Is like an old cold engine smoking right there

(repeat chorus)

          F#          B7             A    E
Oh yes I wonder why trains make me lonesome