Tom: D
D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D
[Verse 1]
D Bm G D Dsus2
When I was a boy in the days of the train,
D Bm A
I'd sit by the tracks on a long summer day,
G D Dsus2
And I'd wave at the brakeman, and he'd wave back at me,
D Bm A D Dsus2
While the thunderclouds rolled out of East Tennessee.
[Verse 2]
Bm G D Dsus2
But the dreams of a boy disappear when you're grown,
D Bm A
And though I may dream, the railroads are gone,
G D Dsus2
The ties, they are rotting, and the tracks shot to hell,
D Bm A D Dsus4
Along with my dreams and the old railroad bell.
[Chorus]
D G A D Dsus2
In my dreams I ride the rails to California,
D G A D Dsus2
Workin' diners and farms along the way,
D G A D Dsus2
Or I'd hop a ride to hide across the border,
D G A D
With a black-eyed girl beside me all the way.
[Verse 3]
N.C. Bm G D Dsus2
But now the mountains are silent, and the railroads are gone,
D Bm A
And the coal towns no longer hear the miners at dawn,
G D Dsus2
But the train whistle shrills out her memories to me,
D Bm A D Dsus4
While the thunderclouds roll out of East Tennessee.
[Chorus]
D G A D Dsus2
In my dreams I ride the rails to California,
D G A D Dsus2
Workin' diners and farms along the way,
D G A D Dsus2
Or I'd hop a ride to hide across the border,
D G A D
With a black-eyed girl beside me all the way.
[Verse 4]
N.C. Bm G D Dsus2
But now the mountains are silent, and the railroads are gone,
D Bm A
And the coal towns no longer hear the miners at dawn,
G D
But the train whistle shrills out her memories to me,
Bm A D
While the thunderclouds roll out of East Tennessee.
