Ghost Trains - chords, tab and comments


Country songs often deal with a railroad theme, and western songs frequently involve something supernatural. To a puerile extent and as a possibly calculated overkill, songwriter Lashua combines this in a song included with Hank Snow's 1963 album "Railroad Man". I've always gotten a thing about trains, so I bought the LP because of the cover. Omigosh, what a treasure ... I laughed my head off. Reasonable adults releasing such balony? The entire album is ridiculous, and this song is on top of the exulting shit I sometimes perform suitably lit up.
Am                               Am7           Am
it was early in the fall and a-blowing up a squall
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from the trestle you could hear the weirdest moans
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with a mighty lonesome cry came a whistle from the sky
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and it chilled the very marrow in my bones
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then a loud rushing roar like you never heard before
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turned the blood to icy water in my veins
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as I watched with rising fear something strange was drawing near
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and I saw in the clouds ghost trains

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ghost trains  ghost trains  what a fearful sight
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The Cannonball and Number Nine were racing through the night
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just as they passed me by I heard the engineer cry
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give her coal ! give her coal ! shovel it on !
           C                C7              F
you could see the fireman grinning in the engine that was winning
      E                  E7             Am
but I knew before the finish they'd be gone
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A minor seventh
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A major
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F major
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E major
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E seventh
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G major
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G seventh
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C major
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D major
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