Chords for David Massengill - Rider on an Orphan Train

[Cm] woman singing or yelling.
[G] _ First time [Eb] I met Edsel I [Abm] found out where he lived I figured I needed
another dulcimer.
I knocked on the door he comes to the door.
[C] I said are [G] you Edsel [A] Martin?
He's a
mountain man hard to find his [G] place in Zuckerman.
He goes yeah I'm Edsel Martin.
I says are you busy?
He goes I was [B] just about buttoning up my shirt.
[D] _ I [Bb] noticed he had his shirt unbuttoned [Eb] all the way down to his belly [G] and at least you know I must have
[N] visited him 20 or 30 times [Db] after that and he always had [Gm] buttoned unbuttoned all the way down.
[C]
Edsel claimed to be the [G] most the loafingest [Eb] man in western North [G] Carolina.
He said [D] trouble with the world today not enough people loaf.
Live [Gm] to do don't do enough of it.
_ [G] [A] I said Edsel you know I kind of inclined [F] that way myself.
I'm a bohemian living [A] up in Greenwich
Village in New York City.
Maybe we should start a club together.
We call it the loafing [Ab] bohemian club.
[Gm] Edsel [G] says that's too much trouble.
_ [C] _ So I had to bow to the man.
_ _ Eventually I [G] he asked to [C] see the dulcimer that my mom had bought
many years ago of his and so I brought it out and I played it for him and he [G] liked it.
He said I
played it [Gm] soft the way it's supposed to play [C] _ and I asked him if he'd make me another [Ab] dulcimer because
he'd stopped making them.
[Gm] He's supposed to [F] make the best ones [G] and he kept saying no I don't make
them anymore.
Finally after [N] we played a little bit he says I'll make you another dulcimer.
A thousand dollars.
I went wow.
He said well make it 250.
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ Anyway I thought I'd start with the song.
I wasn't going to start with this but now that I've talked
about Edsel I should do the song that he liked of mine and he's a mountain man so I thought it was
nice.
A couple people recorded it Tom Russell a few others.
It's called uh Rider on an Orphan Train.
_ _ _ _ [G] _
Once _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I rode an [G] orphan train and [F] my brother [C]
did the same.
They split us up in [Am] misery.
[F] _ [C] _ James was five I was three.
He got taken [G] by some bear [F] but for me they [C] did not care.
We were brave and did not [F] cry _ [C] when they made us say goodbye.
That was the _ last I [F] saw of him _ [C] before some family took [G] me in.
But [C] I swore I'd run [F] away
[C] to find my brother James [E] someday.
[G] I [C] went back when I was [G] grown to [F] see how [C] old the children's home
_ and I used to hold to [Am] see my [F] file.
[C] But when I was an orphan child it's sad they say
there's been [G] a flood.
[F] Fire washed away [C] in Missouri mud. _
Sometimes life is a stone [F] wall.
[C]
You either climb or you fall. _
In every town on [F] every street.
[C]
All the _ faces [G] that I meet _
[C] and I wonder could [F] one be [C] my brother James come back to me.
Oh [G] I don't know where he's gone.
_ [F] I have searched [C] my whole life long.
Now I roam [Am] from town to [F] town.
[C] But there's no orphan he wants to.
_ _ Sometimes I'm an orphan.
Sometimes I _ _ dream
a pleasant sight.
[G] My [F] brother James [C] and I unite.
_ _ Remembering our [Am] last [F] goodbye.
[C] No longer brave we start to cry.
I hope he _ lives the [F] life of ease.
[C] When all his days are soft [G] warm breeze.
May [C] he sit on a [F] throne [C] and may he never sleep alone.
_ Once I rode an [G] orphan train [F] and my [C] brother did the same.
They split us up in misery.
[F] _ [C] _ James was five and I was