merle haggard railroad lady Chords

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_ Railroad Lady is a [G] story song that I chose to put on this album because it [F#] depicts the
very concept of an ever-changing [A#] situation concerning the backbone [B] and the lifeline of America. _
_ [N] And it was stories like these that added even more color _ to the Black Iron Horse. _ _
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[F] She's a railroad _ lady, [C] just a little bit shady, [G] _ spendin' her days [C] on the train. _ _ _
[F] She's a semi-good-looker, [C] but the fast rail they took her.
[G] Now she's tryin', just tryin' to get [C] home again.
_ _ South Station in Boston, [F] to the _ stockyards [C] of Austin, from the Florida sunshine to the
New [G] Orleans rain. _ _ _
_ [C] Now that the rail packs [F] have taken the [C] best track, she's tryin', just tryin' to [G] get [C] home again.
_ _ _ [F] She's a railroad _ lady, [C] just a little bit shady, _ [G] _
spendin' her days [C] on the train.
_ _ _ [F] She's a semi-good-looker, [C] but the fast rails they took her.
Now [G] she's tryin', just tryin' to get home [C] _ again. _ _
Once a high-ballin' loaner [F] thought he [C] could own her.
He bought her for a coat and a big [G] diamond ring.
_ _ _ [C] But she hocked him for cold cash, [F] left town [C] on the wall bash, never thinkin', never thinkin'
of [G] home way [Cm] back [C] then. _
But the rails are now rushed, [F] the dining [C] cars dust, the gold-plated watches have taken [G] their toll.
_ _ _ [C] The railroads are dyin' and [F] the ladies [C] cry, on a bus to Kentucky and [G] home that's [C] her goal. _ _ _
[F] She's a railroad _ lady, [C] just a little bit shady, _ [G] _ spendin' her days [C] on the train. _ _
Once [F] a Pullman car traveler, now [C] the brakeman won't have her.
[G] She's tryin', just tryin' to get [C] home again.
_ _ On a [G] bus to Kentucky [F] and _ [G] home _ [C] once again. _ _ _ _ _
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