Chords for Amy Speace | Rider On An Orphan Train | The IMAs

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I don't really do that many [D#] covers ever and this was sort of a challenge to me.
This was like an interesting _ school assignment, kind of, to try to find something that I could play
that I hadn't already played out, maybe. _
And so I decided that I was going to play a song that I heard recently.
I heard a song by David Massengill, who's a New York City songwriter.
He played this last summer at the Falcon Ridge Folk [F#] Festival.
And I was brought to tears by it.
And _ [E] that's really the kind of song that I want to choose to sing is
if I hear a story or [A] a song of somebody else's that just [D] moves me and I know,
[D] I just think, man, I wish I had [E] written that song.
I mean, there's so many of those songs that people have that I wish I had written.
But I [C] remember I heard this and I thought, God, I want to [D#] sing this song
because it's so unlike anything that I had written.
And I just think it's a gorgeous song.
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Once I _ rode an [C#] orphan train _ _
And my [Bm] _ brother [F#m] did the same
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They split us up in [E] misery _ _ _
[B] James was five and I was three _ _
Got _ taken by [C#] some pair _ _
[B] But for me they did not care _
We were _ brave, did [E] not cry _ _ _
[B] When they made us say goodbye
_ It was the _ last I [F#] saw of him _
[B] Before some [E] _ family took me [B] in _ _
And I _ swore I'd run [E] away
_ And [B] find my brother James someday _ _ _ _
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But I went _ back when I [F#] was grown _ _
[E] To that _ old [B] children's home
_ And [B] [Bm] I asked for him to see my [E] file _
When [B] I was [F#] an orphan _ [B] _ child
It's sad to say there's [F#] been a flood
_ File [E] washed away in [Bm] Missouri, but
_ _ _ Sometimes _ life is a stone [G#m] wall
[E] _ _ Either [B] climb or else you fall
_ _ _ On every town, _ on every [F#] _ street
[Bm] And all [E] the faces that I _ meet
_ And I wonder could one be
_ _ My brother _ [E] James come [B] back to _ me _ _ _ _
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_ _ Though I don't know where he's [Bm] gone
And [E] I have searched my [B] whole life long _
_ Now I roam from town to town _ _
There's [B] no orphan lost and found _ _
Sometimes I dream the pleasant [F#] sight
Of [E] my brother James and I [B] unite _ _ _ _
_ _ Remembering our last _ [E] goodbye
_ No [B] longer brave we start to cry
I _ hope he lives _ a [F#] life of ease _ _
And each [E] day a soft warm [B] _ breeze _
May he sit _ _ upon [E] a throne _ _
[Bm] And may he _ [F#] never sleep [B] alone _ _ _
Once I rode an orphan train _
And my brother did the same
_ They split us all in [E] misery _ _ _
[B] James was five _ and I was three _ _
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