Key: C
Introduction:
G F C
It was the army train that took her daddy from her
G F C
It was the bible train that took her momma too
Am Dm C G
And that high loud whistle made her horse run away
G F C
But the straw the broke the camel's back was you
G F C
It was the government train that took away her childhood
G F C
It was the KKK that took away her past
Am Dm C G
It was the white man's will that hers be broken
G F C
But that barefoot girl could run too fast
C Am
Because the world's too cold for a girl like that with a
C G
Blackfoot soul and a cowboy hat
C Am
Everything she loved went down the dragon track
C G F C
She had a fear of trains
C G
In the beet fields of Montana
Dm Am
She's always coming on dead rails
C G
to break the plow and whisper "Honey,
Dm Am
bound to live is bound to fail"
C G
And in a park in San Francisco
Dm Am
her momma shrieks about the Lord
C G
And down the dead rails there's an echo
Dm Am
The wind is whistling all-aboard
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