Steel Rail Blues Chords by Gordon Lightfoot

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_ _ Well, I got my mail late last night, a letter from a girl who found the time [F#] to write
To her lonesome boy some west [C#] in the night
[F#] She sent me railroad ticket two to take me to her loving [C#] arms
And the big steel [A#m] rail gonna carry [G#] me home to the one [C#] I love
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_ [A#m] _ [G#] Well, I've been out here many long days, I haven't found a place that I could call [F#] my own
Not a too big bed to lay my [C#] body on
[F#] I've been stood up, I've been shook down, I've been dragged into the sand
And the big steel [A#m] rail gonna carry [G#] me home to the one [C#] I love
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_ [C#] _ _ _ [A#m] _ _ [C#] _ _
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_ [C#] _ Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo _ _ _ _
_ _ Well I been up tight most every night
Walking along the streets of this [F#] old town
Not a friend around to tell my [C#] troubles to
[F#] My good old car she done broke down
Because I drove it into [C#] the ground
And the big steel [A#m] rail don't it carry [G#] me home
to the one [C#] I love.
_ [G#] _ [C#] Well I look over yonder across the plain,
the big drive wheels a-pounding along [F#] the ground.
Gonna get on board and I'll be [C#] homeward bound.
[F#] Now I ain't had a home-cooked meal,
the Lord will need one [C#] now,
and the [G#] big steel rail [A#m] gonna carry me home
to [C#] the one I love.
_ [A#m] _ [G#] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [Fm] _ [A#m] Ooooo_ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ [Fm] _
_ [A#] _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ Ooooo_ _
_ _ _ _ _ Now here I am with my hat in my hand,
standing on a broad highway, will you give [F#] a ride
to a lonesome boy who missed the train [C#] last night.
[F#] I went in town for one last round
and I gambled my ticket [C#] away.
And the [A#m] big steel rail won't carry [G#] me home
to the one I love.
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_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ [A#m] _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [G#m] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [A#m] _ _
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