Chords for Texas 1947 - from Guy Clark's 70th Birthday Concert

You were faster than you did a song.
What?
_ I can't hear you.
_ _ Oh, well that's just so sweet.
_ Thank you.
How'd you know
it was my birthday? _
_ _ _ _ Not sure how that_ _
_ [N] This is, _ uh_
This is a song about the first time
I ever saw a streamlined train.
I've _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
heard this intro before.
_ _ _ _ [B] _
Anyway_ [Bm] I never_
[A] I never forgot this incident
in my life.
It was [A#m] 1947.
[N] I was about
six years old.
_ And I knew
somehow_
When I first
started writing songs, I knew it
had to be a song.
So_
I was very proud of
myself.
I had worked
really hard on it.
And I got_
The first time
I went back, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ they didn't remember it. _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ Being six years [A] old,
[G] I had seen some journeys before.
[A] So it's hard to figure out
what I'm that hero [B] for.
_ Black and smoking steam
[G] screaming at the wheels.
[A] The bigger
and entertained is
[B] the beast that's way she feels.
Stranger, bigger than black and
smoking. _ [G] Louder
than [B] July [A] 4th.
But everybody's acting
[B] like this might be something
[E] [B] more.
So you're picking
up the mail
of [G] the soldiers from the war.
[A] Just something even
old men wild
[B] would sing [E] for.
It's [F#m] a late afternoon
[F#] [F#m] on a hot Texas day.
Something [F#] strange is going
on.
We was [D#] hauled away.
[Em] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
That's 50 or 60 people
[G] just sitting on the car.
[A] And the old men
left the dominoes.
[B] And they come down [E] from the bars.
And everybody's checking.
Old [G] Jack Kittrell
check his watch.
_ [A] Us kids behind our ears.
[B] We [E] all
_ _ [B] let it go.
When he [B] finally said train [A] time.
Even thought that Jesus
crashed his [B] self.
Rolled up down the [E] line.
Those things got real quiet.
[G] My mama's journey
got really bad.
[A] Not before I got the chance
to lay a [B] nickel on the track.
The [E] guy
here she comes, she's coming.
[A] The guy there she goes, [B] she's
gone.
Screaming, screaming.
Texting [A] like a mad dog.
[E] Sidecar
[B] in a red and silver.
She don't make no smoke.
She said fast
broken stream.
I
took off and [E] showed the folks.
I said look out, here she
comes, she's [A] coming.
The guy there she goes, she's
[B] gone.
Screaming, screaming.
Texting [F#] like a mad dog.
[E] Sidecar
in [B] a red and silver. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ She [E] never even stopped.
She left 50 [B] or 60 feet.
[G] Still sitting on the car.
_ [A] And they're wondering
what it's gonna do.
[B] _ _ _ [Em] _ For me I got a nickel. Smash, [G] splatter,
better die.
[A] Buy a map, go, run away.
[B] Red, silver, streamline.
Train.
[D] The guy there she comes, [Em] she's coming.
[A] The guy there she goes,
she's [B] gone.
Screaming, screaming.
Texting like a [E] mad
dog. Sidecar
in a red and silver.
She don't make no
smoke.
She [A] said fast broken streamline.
[B] Come and show [E] the folks.
I said look out,
[B] here she comes, [A] she's coming.
The guy there she goes,
she's gone.
Screaming, screaming.
Texting like a mad
dog. [E] Sidecar
in _ a red and silver.
She [A] don't _ _ make no
smoke.
She [B] said fast
_ _ [A] Texting like a mad
dog. [E] Sidecar
_ [Bm] _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _