Texas 1947 — Guy Clark
Chords and lyrics for Texas 1947 by Guy Clark (key of Em).
Verse 1
[E]Now bein' six years old
I'd [G]seen some trains before,
so it's [A]hard to figure out
what I'm [B7]at the depot [E]for.
[E]Trains are big and black and smokin' steam,
[G]screamin' at the wheels,
[A]bigger than anything there is,
at least [B7]that's the way she [E]feels
Trains are [B7]big and black and smokin',
louder than July four,
but [A]everybody's actin' like
this [B7]might be somethin' [E]more...
[E]...than just pickin' up the mail
or the [G]soldiers from the war,
this is [A]somethin' that even old man Wileman (?)
[B7]never seen [E]before.
Bridge
And it's [F#m]late afternoon
on a hot Texas day,
somethin' strange is [A]goin' on
and we's [B7]all in the [E]way.
[E]Well there's fifty or sixty people
they're [G]just sittin' on their cars,
and the [A]old men left their dominoes
and they [B7]come down from the [E]bars.
[E]Everybody's checkin',
old Jack [G]Kittrel(?) checked his watch,
and us [A]kids put our ears
to the [B7]rails to hear 'em [E]pop.
So [B7]we already knowed
when they finally said 'train time'
you'd [A]a-thought that Jesus Christ himself
was [B7]rollin' down the [E]line.
[E]Cuz things got real quiet,
[G]Momma jerked me back,
[A]not before I'd got the chance
to lay a [B7]nickel on the [E]track.
Chorus
[E]Look out here she comes, she's comin',
[A]Look out there she goes, she's gone,
[B7]screamin' straight through Texas
like a [A]mad dog [E]cyclone.
[B7]Big, red, and silver,
she don't make no smoke,
she's a [A]fast-rollin' streamline
[B7]come to show the [E]folks.
[E]Look out here she comes, she's comin'
[A]Look out there she goes, she's gone,
[B7]screamin' straight through Texas
like a [A]mad dog [E]cyclone.
[E]...Lord, she never even stopped.
[E]She left fifty or sixty people
still [G]sittin' on their cars,
and they're [A]wonderin' what it's comin' to
and [B7]how it got this [E]far.
[E]Oh but me I got a nickel smashed
[G]flatter than a dime
by a [A]mad dog, runaway
[B7]red-silver [E]streamline...train
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