Chords for Rod McKuen; Johnny Cash - Train Poems & Songs

_ _ _ _ _ It's great.
You know, I think you and I both got a thing about trains.
Well, you know, I don't know what it is.
I don't know about you, but they're fast-superioring from the part of the country I live in.
But you got trains down here.
Yeah, we got trains still running.
Not as many, and they don't sound like they used to.
I miss that long, low, low, lonesome whistle in the night.
I think all those horns now are recorded in high fidelity. _ _
I knew I was going to come on the show, and I thought that, well, since you like trains, that I'd write something about trains for you.
So this is a [Em] new train poem [F] I've written.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _
[Dm] Where can we go as midnight [G] travelers _ [Am] down the corridors of love, _ [Am] along those same tracks that discontentment [Em] keeps on taking us?
[G] _ _ [F] _
Maybe into the [E] whistle stops, _ [A] the [Am] station houses that we know best, _ [G] _ just to look [C] for that release that keeps on waiting.
[Gm] _ _ _ [F] Maybe we [Em] should ride the longest, [F] grayest train that we can find, [Bm] _ to as far [Dm] away as we can go, _ [C] _ just to be [Dm] gone. _ _
_ I know this [Bb] much, John.
[Dm] I never met a train I didn't like.
[Am] _ And I can't say that much [C] for some people, [Dm] but I keep on [G] looking. _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Am] Well, I knew that _ _ you were going to write a [G] poem for the show especially, so [C] I wrote a poem, too, about [Am] trains.
You heard the old country song called Life is Like [F] a Mountain Railway?
Oh, yeah.
Well, that song [Em] inspired this, you [G] know, likening life to a [F] railroad train.
[E] _ Tracks that lead to [A] everywhere, _ _ [D] trains that come and go, [G] to towns I only heard [C] about, to people I [Gm] don't know.
_ _ [F] I top a new [B] hill every [C] day.
I check my [Dm] speed down grade.
[Em]
I should watch for [Dm] _ broken rails, [C] _
or by [D] whose hand was [Dm] it laid.
_ And life is like a [Bb] railroad train.
_ _ [D] New rails are laid each day.
_ _ [C] Wish I weren't an engineer when I don't know the way. _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
I've _ _ _ [C] _ _
been away so long for the world that's coming, darling.
_ _ [F]
Doesn't [G] anybody _ know [C] my name?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
My [F] sister's up [C] and wed.
[G] _
My [C] mama's took to bed.
_ [F] And now [G] my old dog [C] Red's gone lame. _ _ _ _ _ _
Please tell [F] me if you [C] can, _ [G] what time do [C] the trains roll in?
_ [F] Two ten.
_ [C] Six eighteen.
_ [G] _
Ten forty [C]-four. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ The hedge [F] is turning brown.
[G] _ The [C] house is falling down.
[F] _ _ Doesn't [G] anybody know [C] my name? _ _ _
_ _ _ The girl I left behind, [G] _ she's run [C] off to Carolina.
_ [F] _ I don't [C] have to read a sign.
[G] No, things ain't the same.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
Please tell [F] me if [C] you can, [G] _
what time do [C] the trains roll in?
[F] Two ten.
[C] Six eighteen.
_ [G] _
Ten forty [C] _ -four. _ _ _
_ _ _ You can't [F] get far [C] away _ [G] _ on just [C] a soldier's face.
_ [F] _ Doesn't [G] anybody _ know my name? _ _ _ _
_ _ Used to be [F] when I could [C] see, _ [G] _ _ everybody [C] wanted me.
_ [F] _ Now nobody [C] comes to see [G] the blind man catch the train.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ Please tell [F] me if you [C] can, _ [G] what time do [C] the trains roll in?
_ [F] Two ten.
[C] Six eighteen.
_ [G] _ _
Ten _ forty-four. _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Rob McEwan.
_ _ Rob McEwan, everybody. _