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
F E
from the trestle you could hear the weirdest moans
Am Am7 Am
with a mighty lonesome cry came a whistle from the sky
F E
and it chilled the very marrow in my bones
Am Am7 Am
then a loud rushing roar like you never heard before
F G
turned the blood to icy water in my veins
Dm Bb
as I watched with rising fear something strange was drawing near
A E7 Am
and I saw in the clouds ghost trains
Am
ghost trains ghost trains what a fearful sight
F G C
The Cannonball and Number Nine were racing through the night
Dm E7 Am
just as they passed me by I heard the engineer cry
D D7 G G7
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