Bloodline
Glen Campbell
written by Stephen Geyer
1976 album Bloodline which followed Rhinestone Cowboy
The only preformance I could find was on Johnny Carson
show where Carl Jackson played banjo with Glen's
electric 12 string Ovation. If anyone has a link to a
better recording I would really appreciate it.

Talk about train songs! Just as good as Canadian Railroad
trilogy.
This song should have been one of Glen's signature songs.
It's probably one of his best in my opinion. Just shows how 
the record labels screw things up for the artists and us.

Lyrics match the live version I saw so.....best I could do.

Intro  F  C  D

G
In the eyes of the old ones
    C               D
Who watched from a distance
       G                 C    D
It was devilish magic at best
        G
But the hearts of the children
          C           D
they Were filled with excitement
        C                     D      G
As they dreamed of their home in the West
       C                      G
Oh the engines would fire the black smoke would rise
                                   D
Thru the spray of the slick silver steam
       C                        G
It was something of wonder that steel plated thunder
      D                 Bm   
That moved the American dream
     D                  A
That moved the American dream

A  D  A

A
I can hear the sleepy whistle blowin'
              D
I can see the sparks beneath the wheels
        A
As she leaves the hills behind her
        D
For the ragged cotton fields
 A                   B7
In a dusty one-horse station
        D                 A
All the children grow impatient
                         B7            D    
And they stare into the distance for a sign
N/C      E     D                          A
Here she comes can't you hear the whistle whine
         E     G          D        A 
Here she comes rollin' in right on time
      E              D       A     Bm
I can feel her she's tuggin on my mind Lord
D                         A
she's Running' in my bloodline

Banjo riff in A

A
overman Grady waves his lantern
        D
"All on board" I hear him cry
          A
and While Lucius stokes the cinder Lord
              D
he wipes the coal dirt from his eyes
            A                 B7
Yes she was proud and full of fire
       D                A
As she rode that silver wire
                              B7           D        
From the Kansas Plains to the great Sierra Pine
N/C      E      G                 D       A
Here she comes can't you hear the whistle whine ya'll
         E           G          D        A
Here she comes she's rollin' in right on time
      E        D       A       Bm         D          A
I can feel her runnin' thru my mind yeah running my bloodline        
          D                A             D                
runnin'in my bloodline  in my bloodline  my bloodline

A D B7 D A D Bm A G

G
Now the stockyards are empty
C                       D
All The steel rails are rusted
     G                          C    D
They belong to the wind and the sand
       G
But we long will remember
         C             D
all The steel and the timber
        C                              G
And the pulse that once beat thru this land
       C                      G
Oh the engines would fire the black smoke would rise
                                   D                         
Thru the spray of the slick silver steam
       C                        G
It was something of wonder that steel plated thunder
     D                  Bm    
That moved the American dream
 D                 G     C
moved the American dream
             Bm    C  
The American dream
G    C     G
D  r  e  a  m

flyinglibra51
God Bless Glen Travis Campbell