Chords for The Gallopin' Goose

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[C] On a cold November morning back in 1937, [Am] with an early snowfall [Bb] and on the three [F]-foot tracks
of [C] names, came a mighty strange contraption known to train men as a motor, [Am] but to folks
in Colorado [Bb] she was known [F] by another [C] name.
_ _ Up the canyon's south saw [Am] pit, past the red cathedral, [Bb] spires crossed the yellow [F] mountain,
switched [C] back down to rabbits far below.
On the high of the lofty [Am] trestles, near the fabled mines of [Bb] Ophir, in the silver [F] San Juan
[C] Mountains came a goose a-plowin' [Cm] snow.
With [F] a pistol and a hammer, and a hat and a monoboost, [Cm] in the rear of a southern _ bus,
[F] with a pistol and a hammer, and a hat and a monoboost, [G] came number five, [C] Calvin Deuce. _ _ _ _ _
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[C] T'was a four-door automobile, on a dozen wheels of iron, [Am] sixteen feet of rockin' [Bb] boxcars,
spot-welded [F] to her tail.
[C] Loaded down with mercantile, ten bags of high-grade [Am] ore, two mothers, a nurse, and babies, [Bb] seven
[F] minors, and the male.
[C] _ _ _ Up the side of Sunshine Mountain, [Am] by internal gas combustion, [Bb] eight Pierce-Arrow [F] pistons
pullin' [C] fifteen thousand pounds of lead.
At the snowshed on the summit, [Am] the conductor said his prayers, [Bb] he'd acquired [F] a busted drive
[C] shaft on the path of Lizard Head.
[F] With a Pierce-Arrow engine runnin', hoppin' on the loose, [C] came the rear of a _ _ goose.
[F] With a Pierce-Arrow engine runnin', hoppin' on the loose, [G] came number five, [C] Calvin Deuce. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ [F] _ [C] Down three percent to Rigo, in the Valley of Dolores, [Am] they still talk about the southern,
[Bb] and her flock of [F] flying geese.
[C] From the roundhouse at Ridgeway, to the depot at Durango, [Am] all the tracks are gone for scrap
[Bb] iron, and the ganders [F] rest in peace.
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Up the canyon south of Sophia, [Am] past the Red Cathedral, spires [Bb] cross the Yellow [F] Mountain,
switchbacks [C] and the rapids far below.
On the high and lofty crests, [Am] near the fabled mines of Ophir, [Bb] in Silver [F] San Juan Mountains,
[C] there's a legend in the snow.
[F] With a Pierce-Arrow engine runnin', hoppin' on the loose, [C] came the rear of a southern _ goose.
[F] With a Pierce-Arrow engine runnin', hoppin' on the loose, [G] came number five, [C] Calvin Deuce. _ _
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