Chords for Johnny Cash - Hey Porter

There was a day in 1955 that I'll never forget.
I was 23 years old and not too long out of the Air Force
Sun Records had just released the first record by Johnny Cash in a Tennessee two that was Marshall Grant and Luther Perkins
Well, I took that big 78 rpm record to a Memphis radio station and gave it to a disc jockey
That I've been listening to for years
Even way before I was in the Air Force
He was the very first one to ever play a Johnny Cash record on the air and
Tonight he's right here.
And that really makes me very glad
He's now one of Nashville's leading talent agents
My friend, mr.
Bob Neal
The _ _ _ _ _ _ song that Bob Neal played that first day in
1955 was the first of a lot of railroading songs that I've done over the years
I'd written it kind of a sentimental thing about my return from Air Force back to the south.
It's called.
Hey Porter
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_ _ Hey Porter, [B] hey Porter
Would you tell [E] me the time?
How much longer will it be to [F#] cross that Mason [B]-Dixon line?
At [E] daylight, would you tell that engineer [A#] to slow [A] it down?
Or better [D] still [E] just stop [B] the train because I want to look [E] around
_ Hey Porter, hey Porter
What time did you say?
How much longer will it be to like [F#] and see [B] the light of day [E] when we hit Dixie
Would you tell that engineer to [A] ring his bell and ask [E] everybody that ain't [B] asleep to stand right [E] up and yell? _ _ _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ [Bm] _ _
[A] Step your tongue on the [B] drum
Hey _
[E] _ _ _ Porter, hey Porter
It's getting light outside
This old train's been [F#] smoking a half a train [B] by
[E] But ask that engineer if he will blow his [A] whistle, please
Cause I smell [E] cross-country [B] leaves in the field of [E] southern green
_ Hey Porter, hey Porter, please get my bags for me
I need nobody to tell me [F#] now that we're in [B] Tennessee
[E] Go tell that engineer to make that [A] lonesome whistle scream.
We're not so far from [E] home
[B] Take it easy [E] on us
_ Earl Bowman _ _
Jerry Hinton
_ _ Hey _ [F#] _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ _ Porter, hey Porter, please open up the door
When they stop this train I'm gonna get [F#] off first cause I [B] can't wait no more
Tell [E] that engineer I said thanks a lot and I [D] didn't [A] mind a fair
Gonna set [E] my feet on southern [A#] soil [B] and breathe that [E] southern air _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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