Chords for Railroad Lady

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_ Railroad Lady is a story song [Ab] that I chose to put on this album because it depicts the very concept of an ever [N]-changing
situation concerning the backbone and the lifeline of America
_ 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] Spending her days [C] on the train _ _
_ [F] She's a semi-good-looker
But [C] the fast rails they took her.
Now [G] she's trying, just trying, to get home [C]
again
_ _ South Station in Boston to [F] the _ stockyards of [C] Austin from the Florida sunshine
to the New [G] Orleans rain _ _
Now [C] _ that the rail packs [F] have taken the [C] best track
She's trying, just trying, to [G] get home [C] _
again
_ _ [F] She's a railroad _ lady
[C] Just a little bit shady
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Spending 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 trying, just trying, to get [C] home again _
_ Once a high-balling loner
[F] Thought he [C] could own her.
He bought her fur coat and a big [G] diamond ring
_ _ But [C] she hocked him for cold cash, [F] left town on [C] the wall bash, never thinking, never thinking
of [G]
home way [C] back then _
But the rails are now rusty, [F] the dining [C] car's dusty, the gold-plated
watches have taken [G] their toll
_ _ The [C] _
railroads are dying [F] and the ladies [C] cry
On a bus to _ Kentucky [G] and home that's her [C] goal _ _
She's [F] a railroad _ lady
[C] Just a little bit shady
_ [G] Spending her days [C] on the train _ _
Once [F] a Pullman car traveler, now [C] the brakeman won't have her
[G] She's trying, just trying, to get home [C] _
again
_ _ On a [G] bus to Kentucky [F] and home [G] _ once [C] _
again _ _ _ _
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