Am _ _ _ _ Oh yeah,
A oh no, the train, every two or three years the train kills somebody.
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Every two or three
Ebm years, yep.
_ _ Everybody knows about the train, okay?.
You hear it
C constantly.
_ _ _ _ _ I think the
N train is a way to find your way out of this life if you get hit by it.
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Bb A couple of kids got hit by a Union
F Pacific train.
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Carried sheet metal and household appliances
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Eb foreign ring.
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Bb They're planning on getting married after graduation.
F Had a little baby girl, trouble came and shut
Gm it down.
_ _ _ Things like that ain't
Eb supposed to happen _ _ in this
Bb quiet town.
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Families
F are tight.
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Gm Good people still don't deadbolt their doors
Eb at night _ _ _ in this
Bb quiet town.
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Eb _ _ _ _ we first
Bb heard opioid stories, they were always in
F whispering tones.
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Gm Now banners of sorrow mark the front steps of
Eb childhood homes.
Parents
Gm wept through daddy's girl
Bb eulogies and marriage badge milestones.
With their daughters
F and sons laying their lifeless in their suits
Gm and _ gowns.
_ Somebody's been keeping
Eb _ secrets _ _ in this
Bb quiet town.
_ _ _ They know
F how to live.
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Gm Good people who lean on Jesus, they're quick to
Eb forgive _ in this quiet
Bb town.
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Bb _ _ Near the town, I'll find some reason
F to give.
_ _ _ And I
Bb will walk with the dead and the living where I
Eb used to live.
And every time I see my
Bb parents in the prime of their lives, _ _ offering
F their son the kind of love he
Dm could
Fm never
Bb put down.
_ _ Part of me is still
Eb that stainless kid, lucky in this
Bb quiet town.
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Salt
F of the land.
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Hard
Gm working people, if you're in trouble, they'll lend
Eb you a hand.
_ _ Here in this quiet
Bb town.
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Bb _ The first crop of hay is up, school
F it out and the sun beats
Bb Gm down.
Snug pillows from a Sunday train,
Eb it cries away from a quiet
Bb town.
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