Tom: G
Bm
I’m standing on Salteo Tile on an old adobe porch
C D G
Across the street the Baptist church, God’s own neon torch
Bm
With my baby sleeping safe inside, I’m the shadow she’s the light.
C D G
Now here comes the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.
[Verse 2]
Bm
Baby wakes up and calls to me: “What is that lonesome sound?
C D G
It echoes off the mountains out near the lights of town.”
Bm
And I say, “Hush now, I come to you, hold you oh so tight
C D G
And rock you to the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.”
[Chorus]
C F C C4 G
Blowing through those cotton fields near the Cana’tior river breaks
Em Bm
Past the shanty towns of old Juarez,
F D
The eagle and the snake
C D Em
Blowin across West Texas rattlin' out of sight
G D C
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight,
Em D G
Making love to the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.
[Instrumental Break]
C Bm Am C Bm D
[Verse 3]
G Bm
Well look where we have ended up on the edge of the Great South West
C D G
Starin’ at those restless trees along the water ditch
Bm
And up the Street the Rio Grande like Egypt’s old Blue Nile
C D G
With the memory of the early ones who rested here a while.
[Verse 4]
Bm
But now the freight trains and the long haul trucks, they’re passin’ through
C D G
And they don’t have the urge to wink at the likes of me and you
Bm
It’s all just diesel smoke, iron rail and a running string of lights
C D G
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight.
[Chorus]
C F C C4 G
Blowing through those cotton fields near the Cana’tior river breaks
Em Bm
Past the shanty towns of old Juarez,
F D
The eagle and the snake
C D Em
Blowin across West Texas rattlin' out of sight
C D G
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight,
Em D G
Making love to the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.
C Bm Am C Bm D G
