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	CODA	: G

INTRO:

Dm

Em

F

Em

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Dm

G

A

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VERSE 1

	Dm	Em
	Six o'clock s	ilence,

	F	Em
Of a	new day begin	ning

	Dm	G	A
	Is heard in the	small Texas	town

	Dm	Em
	Like a signal from	nowhere

	F	Em
The	people who	live there

	Dm	G	A
	Are up and they're m	oving ar	ound

	D7
'Cause there's	bacon to fry

	G7
And there's	biscuits to bake

	D7	G7
	On the stove that the Salvation A	rmy won't take

	D7
	And you open the windows

	G7
And you	turn on the fan

	A	A/G
'Cause it's	hotter than	hell

	A/F	A/E
When the	sun hits the	land

VERSE 2

Walter and Fanny

Well they own the grocery

That sells most of all that you need

They've been up and working

Since early this morning

They've got the whole village to feed

They put out fresh eggs

Throw bad ones away

That rotted because

Of the heat yesterday

The store's all dark

So you can't see the flies

That settle on round steak

And last Monday's pies

VERSE 3

Sleepy Hill's Drugstore

And the cafe they're open

The coffee is bubbling hot

And all the folks that ain't working

Gonna sit there 'till sundown

And talk about what they ain't got

Someone just threw a clutch

In the old pickup truck

It seems like they been riding

On a streak of bad luck

The doctors bills came

And the well has gone dry

Seems their grown kids don't care

Whether they live or die

CODA: G

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TEXAS TRILOGY: TRAIN RIDE

chords used:

G F* C*

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CHORD CHART

VERSE:

4G 4F 4C 8G 4G 4F 4C 8G

2F 2C 8G 2F 2C 8G

CHORUS:

	F	C	2G	F	C	2G
	F	C	2G	8C

VERSE 1

	G
Well, the	last time I remember

	F
That	train stoppin at the depot

	C
Was when	me and my Aunt Veta

	G
Came	riding back from Waco

	G
I re	member I was wearing

	F
My long	pants and we was sharing

	C
Conversa	tion with a man

	G
Who sold	ball-point pens and paper

	F	C
And the t	rain stopped once in C	lifton

	G
Where my	Aunt bought me some ice cream

	F	C
And my M	om was there to	meet us

	G
When the t	rain pulled into Kopperl

CHORUS

	F	C	G
But now	kids at	night break	window lights

	F	C	G
And the	sound of	trains on	ly remains

	F	C	G
In the m	emory o	f the	ones like me

	F	C	G
Who have t	urned their	backs on the	splintered cracks

	F	C	G
In the w	alls that	stand on the	railroad land

	F	C	G
Where we	used to	play and then	run away

	C
From the d	epot man

VERSE 2

I remember me and brother

Used to run down to the depot

Just to listen to the whistle blow

When the train pulled into Kopperl

And the engine's big and shiny

Black as coal that fed the fire

And the engineer he'd smile and say,

"Howdy, how you fellows?"

And the people by the windows

Playing cards and reading papers

Seemed as far away to us

As next summer's school vacation

(CHORUS)

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TEXAS TRILOGY: BOSQUE COUNTRY ROMANCE

CHORD CHART

VERSE:

	F	G	C	2F	2C	G	C
	CH	OR	US	:

F

G

C

2F

2C

2Am

C

G

2C

VERSE 1

	C	F
Mary M	artin was a s	choolgirl

	G	C
Just se	venteen or	so

	C	F
	When she married Billy	Archer

	D	G
About	fourteen years	ago

	F	G
Not	even out of	high school

	C	F
Folks	said it wouldn't	last

	D
But when you	grow up in the country

	G
You grow up mighty	fast

	C	F
They	married in a	hurry

	G	C
In M	arch before school was	out

	C	F
Folks	said that she was	pregnant,

	D	G
"Just	wait and you'll find	out."

	F	G
It c	ame about that w	inter

	C	F
One g	ray November	morn

	C
	The first of many more to come

	G	C
A b	aby boy was	born

CHORUS

	C
	And cattle is their game

	F
And Archer is the n	ame

	D	G
They	give to the acres that they	own

	F	G
If the	Brazos don't run d	ry

	C	F
And the	newborn calves they don't	die

	C	Am
A	nother year from Mary will have	flown

	C	G	C
	Another year from M	ary will have f	lown

VERSE 2

Now Billy kept what cattle

His daddy could afford

As he went bouncing across the cactus

In a 1950 Ford

But the cows were sick and skinny

And the weeds was all that grew

But Billy kept the place alive

The only thing he knew

And Mary cooked the supper

And Mary scrubbed the clothes

And Mary busted horses

And blew the baby's nose

And Mary and a shotgun

Kept the rattlesnakes away

And how she kept on smiling

No one could ever say

(CHORUS)

VERSE 3

Now the drought of '57

Was a curse upon the land

No one in Bosque County

Could give ol' Bill a helping hand

The ground was cracked and broken

And the truck was out of gas

And cows can't feed on prickly pear

Instead of growing grass

Well the weather got the water

And a snake bite took a child

And a fire in the old barn

Took the hay that Bill had piled

The mortgage got the money

And the screw worm got the cows

The years have come for Mary

She's waiting for them now

(CHORUS)

CODA (repeat DAYBREAK VERSE 1 in Am)

Am

Bm

C

Bm

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Am

D

E

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