Chords for Tom Russell - October in the Railroad Earth

And the freight trains still roll with [A] their cannonball soul
[D] From Chicago to the stockyards of [A] Fort Worth _ [D] all the way out to [C#m] Frisco's end of land sadness
[Bm] _ October in the railroaders
[E] _ _ _ [G] October in [E] the railroads
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_ Jack Kerouac getting high on a fifth the cheap toque [E] skid row alley
_ Howard and third _ [B] his shadow on the shades near the Southern Pacific Station
October in [E] the railroaders
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_ _ old bums with tattoos from Singapore
_ box cars iron wheels giving birth
_ _ _ Flophouse afternoons of old warped wood America
October in the railroaders
Railroaders out where the [D] freight trains still roll with their cannonball soul
[D] Chicago to the [A] stockyards of Fort Worth _ all the way out to Frisco [C#m] and that in the land sadness
[Bm] October in the [B] railroad
[E] _ _ _ [G] October in the railroad
[A] _ _ _ Jack's Bible on his desk near the peanut butter jar his notebook with those deep [E] poetic words
_ _ Raisin bread and oatmeal coffee on a hot flip October in the railroad
_ _ Jack hits the morning alley with his brake man's lantern stares at a hooker in a polka-dotted skirt
_ _ Three eggs for a dime and that lumberjack stew
October in the railroad
_ _ _ [D] October in the [A] railroad
_ _ [D] What's that thing [E] called fame [A] really worth?
_ [D] Light a candle for [E] his soul in some [A] old Mexican [D] church
_ _ [A] October in [E] the railroad [A] You talk _ _
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_ [A] _ _ Well, Jack bottoms out in Big Sur up in Berlin Getty's cab tries to hitchhike but [E] drivers swirling curse
His wife is taking him sewing to pay his bills and his bar tab October in the
[A] railroader
_ Jackie's gone in October six few dollars in the bank and he's buried near the place [E] of his birth
_ Getting beat up outside of bars and passing out in cars.
He left his blood soaked in the railroad
[A] _ _ _ [D] October in [E] the railroad [A] Order
_ What's [D] that thing called fame [A] really worth?
Light [D] a candle for [E] his soul in some [A] old Mexicali [D] church
_ [A] October in the railroad
_ Out where the [D] freight trains still roll with their cannonball soul
Chicago to the stockyards of Fort Worth
_ All the way out to Frisco [C#m] and that in the land sands
[Bm] October in the railroad
[E] _ _ _ [G] _ October in the [A] railroad
On _ _ the road Dharma bumps Trish Statham vision Dakota Mexico City blues
[E] Book _ of Dreams dr.
Sacks Lonesome Traveller some of the Dharma October in the [A] railroad
_ _ _ _ Desolation angels visions of Gerard town in the city subterranean _
[E] big sir
_ Visions of Cody the hippos were boiling her tanks.
Yeah, October in the [A] railroad
_ _ _ _ _ Desolation angels _ visions of Gerard _ [E] the town in the city _ _ the subterranean
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