Chords for Rosalie Sorrels : Starlight On The Rails (Utah Phillips)

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_ _ _ Oh God, we have been in exile in our own country, _ [Em] and a stranger in another land.
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_ _ We [A] walked down little roads in Cumberland, and [Em] stooped because the [B] sky hung [Ab] down so [D] low,
_ and no [C] place that we went was far.
[G] _ _ _ And always return to us [B] that [A] terrible hunger that haunts and hurts Americans, [G] and makes
us [Gm] exiles in our own land, [C] and [A] strangers wherever we go.
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[D] _ _ [G] Oh, I will go up and down this country, _ _ [F]
and [E] back and forth across this country, _ and I
will [D] go out west where the states are [C] square.
_ _ I will go to Boise, _ [Abm] and Helena, [G] and _ Albuquerque, and the two [D] Dakotas, and all the unknown places.
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Oh brother, _ _ have you [A] heard the thunder of the fast express? _ _ _
[E] _ Have you seen the starlight on the rails? _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I can _ hear the whistle [Am] _ blowing, _
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how _ lonesome [G] as can _ be.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ Tonight _ the rain is [G] softly falling, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ and it's [D] falling just for [G] _
me.
_ _ _ Looking _
[Am] back [Dm] _ along [D] the road [G] I travel _ _ all those [Am] miles, _ _ _ _ [Bm] tell a [G] million _ _ _ tales. _ _
Each year Lord, _ [C] like some rolling [G] freight train, _ _ _ _ [Am] it's cold, the [Bm] _
starlight [G] on the rails. _ _ _ _
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_ _ I _ think about my home and [Am] my family, _ _ _ my house, [D] _ _ _ _
and all the [G] things it _ _ _ _ _ means.
_ [Cm] The black [C] smoke trailing [G] out behind me _ _ _ [Am] _ is like a string [Bm] of broken [G] _ dreams. _ _
_ Looking [Am] _ back _ [D] _
along the [G] road I travel _ all those [Am] miles, _ _ _ [D] _
tell a [G] million _ _ _ _ tales.
Each year Lord, [C] like some rolling [G] freight train, _ _ _ [A] it's cold, [D] the starlight on [G] the rails. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Now if you live out [Am] on the highway, _
_ _ _ _ [D] oh [Am] you're like [D] some clock that [G] can't tell time. _ _
_ _ _ _ And if you [C] spend your [G] life just rambling, _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Em] you're [D] like a song that [G] doesn't rhyme. _ _
_ Looking [Am] back _ _ [D]
along the [G] road I _ travel all those [Am] miles, _ _ _ [D]
they could tell a [G] million _ tales. _ _
_ _ Each year Lord, [C]
like some [G] rolling freight train, _ _ _ _ [Am] it's cold, [D] the starlight on [G] the rails. _ _ _ _
_ Yeah, [A] it's cold, it's cold, [D] the [Bm] starlight on [G] the rails. _
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