Through The Window Of A Train Chords by Blue Highway

_ _ _ Grammy nominated, round of recording artist and also part of the crooked road concert series. _ _
You'll join in singing as we remember our troops.
[Eb]
Here is blue highway.
[Bb] _ _ Oh [E] _ _ [B] say can [Bb] you see _ by the dawn's [G] early [F] _ _ light what so [Dm] _
proudly we [Gb] hailed _ at the twilight's last gleaming?
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[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Ab] I mean to be in a [Bb] band with guys like this _ has been [Ab] a dream come true.
[Gm] It's a really cool blend of things and [F] _ very [Gm] untypical [Cm] bluegrass topics.
These guys are such good writers, you know, they hardly ever [Eb] write something on just your
standard three chord bluegrass tune.
Being [G] together for that long and [Ebm] playing together for that long, it really [Bb] helps when it comes
time to make a record or whatever [B] we're doing.
We kind of hear [E] stuff at the same [A] time. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ I tell you, the main thing about Blue Highway is whether they're on record or they're putting
on a show, it's tight and it's right.
[B] Don't see a thing, [A] nothing, no, no [E] way.
They're [Gb] kind of like our big brother band because the String [B] Dusters have always, _ _
[E] _ _ you
know, produced our records [A] so we _ kind of plan that because we really respect Blue Highway.
Let me ride along with [E] you, no matter where [A] we stop along the way.
It was a great sound [Db] that I heard from those guys.
[E] To me it was fresh but it was [Dbm] old as the hill.
[E] Different story [A] down [E] every line, people working hard just to live [B] and die.
[Dbm]
I think this is the easiest record we've ever [E] done.
It's been really good.
[A] Through the window of a train. _ _
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[A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ This [G] is Maggert's studio.
We're in Big Stone Gap, [Bb] Virginia.
I knew the vibe was going to be very [G] cool here.
We just kind of tossed around some different ideas and we kept coming back to this [Bb] place.
Four of us kind of are [Gm] from this region.
[Cm] _ [D] Three of us from this [Cm] particular area, [Gm] Sean and Wayne and I.
[D] Yeah, this is home to me.
This is, you know, grew up listening to [Gb] this music and _
[G] I've said for years that we [D] take
it way too much for granted around here because everybody plays something, you know.
Everywhere [Gb] you look there's [D] somebody playing a guitar or a banjo or something.
Yeah, this is kind of where we all, where we met [Gm] really.
_ And I had met Tim Stafford when he [G] was playing with Alison [Dm] Krauss.
_ [A] _ But the first time I met the rest of the guys when we [Dm] got together to work [Gm] on this, put
the band together in 94, [Dm] 95.
It's a [Gm] real interesting area, real musical.
[D] Right next to the Clinch Mountain.
[Bb] It definitely has to come out, you know, being from a place that produced Ralph and Carter,
Stanley and Jim and Jesse and all these great singers over the years.
[Dm] That really [Gm] helps them to stay connected to the mountains, to [D] stay connected to the roots
of what they [Dm] grew up playing, the church [G] environment, that [Cm] gospel stream [Gm] that runs through their
music and their sound.
[G] When we decided to do this record here, we just kind of wanted to do something different.
[Bb] What's out of the way, you know, it's _ got this cool little _
[N] ambiance all its own.
One, two, three, one.
[Gb] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
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_ _ [B] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
_ I was thinking about Mary as I left to Coon [Db] Kerry.
People always [Bb] ask us about _ how do you arrange your material or how do you guys, you know,
work out [Db] everything.
And I always tell people we don't work out anything.
It's just we just start playing.
[Abm]
The way the [Db] song's written will dictate [Gb] the arrangement.
Nine times out of ten, it'll tell you what it wants to do, you know, and you listen close
[Abm] enough to it.
[Bbm] You just _ catch it as it happens.
And that's when you get the more memorable stuff, I [Bb] think.
So that's definitely been the _ plan [Gb] with this record, or lack of plan with this record.
[Gbm] _ [Db] I like the idea of _ [B] not having a preconceived [Db] notion.
_ It kind of [Gb] adds energy to it.
_ _ _ [E] It's more [B] than a living, [Db] it's been my whole life.
_ [E] And [Bb] we just sat around in a circle and started doing [Bm] that song.
[Gb] Oddly enough, it ended up being an all original record, too, which wasn't, you know, we didn't
set out to make it that, but we got together [Db] and we had so much [Abm] stuff.
We've got a song about a homeless man.
We've got [F] a song about a [E] Civil War era story.
We have a story [G] about the funeral to tell, the two soldiers who [Gbm] come to the door to tell
[E] a person that a loved one has died in battle.
[Db] We're the [B] two _ soldiers no one wants to [A] [E] see.
In a plain black sedan [Dbm] rolling slowly [E] down the street.
Pass [Dbm] the toys [B] and the bikes.
[Gb] There's a song [Gbm] about the time of the day that we just finished recording here called
Where Did the Morning Go?
It's a metaphor for [Bb] life. _
_ I was born [G] a clear and sunny [Cm] day.
Evening shadows [Ab] fall my _ way.
Where did [Cm] the morning go?
_ [Eb] I really _ enjoyed doing that.
I think we got [Ab] a good cut of that song.
I think [Bb] it's just one that [Ab] every single [Bb]
human [Eb] alive can relate to.
[Ab] The way time passes so [Eb] fast.
It's not your basic [C] cabin songs.
[Cm] Blue Highway is [Eb] writing their own history in bluegrass.
I love that.
I think it's a great thing.
[F] We're just all [Ab] good friends and we just [Gm] enjoy playing.
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_ _ _ [D] There's really no reason not to [F] keep going if you've got that going.
[Gm] We've been lucky [Cm] and real blessed and real [Eb] fortunate.
_ Like I said earlier to have been accepted [Bb] for original [Ab] material.
_ And for [Eb] doing things kind of the way we want to do it.
If it's going good you better just [G] _ [C] make sure you've got your hand on the rudder and [G] keep it going the way it is.
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ I like it.
_ Go.
_ [Ebm] _ That's better than I thought it was.
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