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Steel Rail Blues Gordon Lightfoot
[C]Well I got my mail late last night
A letter from a girl who [C7]found the time to [F]write
To her lonesome boy [F]somewher's in the [C]night
She [F]sent me a railroad [F]ticket too
To make me to her lovin' [C]arms
And the big steel [Am]rail gonna carry me [G7]home
To the one I [C]love [Em] [Am] [G7]
Refrain: [F]Ooh [Em]ooh [Am]ooh [C]i hi hi
[F]Ooh [Em]ooh [Am]ooh [G7]ooh [C]ooh
Well I bin out here man long days
I haven't found a place that I could call my own
Not a two bit bed to lay my body on
I bin stood up, I bin shock down
I bin dragged into the sand
And the big steel rail gonna carry me home
To the one I love
Refrain:
Well I bin up tight nost every night
Walkin' around the streets of this old town
Not a friend around to tell my troubles to
My old car; she done broke down
'Cause I drove it into the ground
And the big steel rail gonna carry me home
To the one I love
Refrain:
Well look over yonder across the plain
The big drive wheels a-poundin' along the ground
Gonna get on board and I'll be homeward bound
Now I aint' had a home cooked meal
And Lord I need one now
And the big steel rail gonna carry me home
To the one I love
Refrain:
Now here I am with my hat in my hand
Standin' on the broad highway, will you give a ride
To a lonesome boy who missed the train last night
I went in town for one last round
And I gambled my ticket away
And the big steel rail gonna carry me home
To the one I love
Refrain:
Chords used:
Am - x02210
C - 032010
C7 - 032310
Em - 022000
G7 - 320001
[F] [-] [132211]
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caho (report)
The First line of the last verse should be "Here I am with my head in the sand"
that is the line used on the Gord's Gold Album
Teebird (report)
The last verse should be changed to read, "Now the big steel rail won't carry me home To the one I love" because he's now lost his ticket and that's why he's hitchhiking.