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- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:32:41 -0700 (PDT)
- From: "T. Hickson" <hickson@pangea.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: c/clark_guy/texas_1947.crd
-
- Song: Texas 1947
- Artist: Guy Clark
- Transcribed by: T. Hickson
-
- >From the album "Keepers" (track 2), a live album. I'm probably missing a
- lot of the subtleties, but it's a nice, easy way to play it. Guy makes
- the verses build as if a train is approaching and passing you by, but you
- gotta hear it to make it work.
-
-
- ___________________________________________________________
-
- Em
- Now bein' six years old
- G
- I'd seen some trains before,
- A
- so it's hard to figure out
- B Em
- what I'm at the depot for.
-
-
- Em
- Trains are big and black and smokin' steam,
- G
- screamin' at the wheels,
- A
- bigger than anything there is,
- B Em
- at least that's the way she feels
-
-
- B
- Trains are big and black and smokin',
-
- louder than July four,
- A
- but everybody's actin' like
- B Em
- this might be somethin' more...
-
-
- Em
- ...than just pickin' up the mail
- G
- or the soldiers from the war,
- A
- this is somethin' that even old man Wileman (?)
- B Em
- never seen before.
-
- BRIDGE:
- F#m
- And it's late afternoon
-
- on a hot Texas day,
- A
- somethin' strange is goin' on
- B Em
- and we's all in the way.
-
-
- Em
- Well there's fifty or sixty people
- G
- they're just sittin' on their cars,
- A
- and the old men left their dominoes
- B Em
- and they come down from the bars.
-
-
- Em
- Everybody's checkin',
- G
- old Jack Kittrel(?) checked his watch,
- A
- and us kids put our ears
- B Em
- to the rails to hear 'em pop.
-
-
- B
- So we already knowed
-
- when they finally said 'train time'
- A
- you'd a-thought that Jesus Christ himself
- B Em
- was rollin' down the line.
-
-
- Em
- Cuz things got real quiet,
- G
- Momma jerked me back,
- A
- not before I'd got the chance
- B Em
- to lay a nickel on the track.
-
-
- CHORUS:
-
- E
- Look out here she comes, she's comin',
- A
- Look out there she goes, she's gone,
- B
- screamin' straight through Texas
- A E
- like a mad dog cyclone.
- B
- Big, red, and silver,
-
- she don't make no smoke,
- A
- she's a fast-rollin' streamline
- B E
- come to show the folks.
- E
- Look out here she comes, she's comin'
- A
- Look out there she goes, she's gone,
- B
- screamin' straight through Texas
- A E
- like a mad dog cyclone.
-
-
-
- Em
- ...Lord, she never even stopped.
-
-
-
- Em
- She left fifty or sixty people
- G
- still sittin' on their cars,
- A
- and they're wonderin' what it's comin' to
- B Em
- and how it got this far.
-
-
- Em
- Oh but me I got a nickel smashed
- G
- flatter than a dime
- A
- by a mad dog, runaway
- B Em
- red-silver streamline...train
-
-
- CHORUS:
-
- ___________________________________________________________
-
- CHORDS ONLY, BY VERSE:
-
- V1:
-
- Em G A B Em
-
- V2:
-
- Em G A B Em
-
-
- V3:
- B A B Em
-
- V4:
- Em G A B Em
-
- Bridge:
-
- F#m A B Em
-
- V5:
- Em G A B Em
-
- V6:
- Em G A B Em
-
- V7:
- B A B Em
-
- V8:
- Em G A B Em
-
-
-
- CHORUS:
-
- E A B A E
-
- B A B E
-
- E A B A E
-
-
-
- Em
-
- V9:
- Em G A B Em
-
- V10:
-
- Em G A B Em
-
- CHORUS:
-
- E A B A E
-
- B A B E
-
- E A B A E
-