mississipi john hurt- Waiting for a Train Chords

_ I think you might do. _ _
_ What's that?
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] Play the uh, [Ab] let the mermaid fart with me, except use the old original word. _ _
_ Sing waiting for a train. _ _
_ Sing waiting for a train.
[Eb] You remember most of it.
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But I can't yodel. _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] I can't do that.
Unless you're ugly. _
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You're [Ab] right.
_ _ _ Be worse than breaking up those soda crackers.
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In other words, _ _ _ let it be the mermaid, but in the original word.
Right.
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All [F] _ around the [Ab] water _ tank, [Db] leaking [G] _ in [Ab] the rain.
_ _ _ _ [Db] Thousand miles [Ab] away from home, _ [Eb]
waiting for a train. _ _
I walked up to the [Ab] brake man, [F] I asked [Eb] for a line of talk.
_ _ [Db] He says if you [Ab] got money, _ [Eb] I will see that you don't want. _
I _ haven't [Ab] got a nickel, [G] _ not [Db] a [Bb] penny can I show.
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] Get off, get off [C] you [Ab] railroad bum, [Eb] you slam that [Ab] boxcar door.
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[F] Put me [Ab] off in Texas, _ a place I deal the low.
_ _ [Db] Why don't [Ab] spaces all around me, _ [Bb] moon and stars [Eb] up above.
_ That no one [Ab] seems to care me, [Db] either lend me [Ab] a helping hand. _
_ [Db] I'm on my way [Ab] from Frisco, I'm [Bb] going back [Eb] to _ Dixieland.
_ _ My _ [Ab] pocketbook is empty, _ and my heart is full of chains. _ _
_ [Db] _ Thousand [Eb] miles _ [Ab] away from home, _ [Eb] waiting for [Ab] a train.
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