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TEXAS 1947
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Bein' six years old I had seen some trains before
A B7 E
So it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for
G
Trains are big and black and smokin' steam screamin' at the wheels
A B7 E
Bigger'n anything there is least that's the way she feels
B7
Trains are big and black and smokin' louder'n July 4th
A B7 E
But everybody's actin' like this might be something more
G
Than just pickin' up the mail or the soldiers from the war
A B7 E
This is somethin' even old man Wileman's never seen before
BRIDGE:
F
And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day
A B7 E
Somethin' strange is goin' on and we's all in the way
G
There are 50 or 60 people just sittin' on their cars
A B7 E
And the ole men left their dominos and come down from the bars
E G
Everybody's checkin' old Jack Kittrell checks his watch
A B7 E
And us kids put our ears to the rails to hear 'em pop
B7
So we already knowed it when they finally said train time
A B7 E
You'd've thought that Judgment Day was rollin' down the line
E G
Cause things got real quiet and mama jerked me back
A B7 E
But not before I get the chance to lay a nickel on the track
CHORUS:
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Look out here she comes she's comin' look out there she goes she's gone
B7 A E
Screamin' straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone
B7
Big and red and silver she don't lay no smoke
A B7 E
She's a fast rollin' streamline come to show the folks
E A
I said look out here she comes she's comin' look out there she goes she's gone
B7 A E
Screamin' straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone
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Lord she never even stopped
G
She left 50 or 60 people still sittin' on their cars
A B7 E
Wonderin' what it's comin' to and how it got this far
G
And me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime
A B7 E
By a mad dog runaway red silver streamline train
CHORUS:
A
Look out here she comes she's comin' look out there she goes she's gone
B7 A E
Screamin' straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone
B7
Big and red and silver she don't lay no smoke
A B7 E
She's a fast rollin' streamline come to show the folks
A
Look out here she comes she's comin' look out there she goes she's gone
B7 A E
Screamin' straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone
A
Look out here she comes she's comin' look out there she goes she's gone
B7 A E
Screamin' straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone
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