Chords
Lincolns Funeral Train

Key: E

Introduction:  Em   Em   D4   D  

difficulty
intermediate |||||
 G 
On the twenty-first of April
         D 
Eighteen and sixty-five
The Three-Thirty-One left Washington
         C                 C2           Em 
For Lincoln's last train ride
 G 
Cannons boomed, the bonfires burned
                                         D 
The evergreens wore grey, Three-Thirty-One, in the morning sun
         C                       C2     Em 
The hearse, that journey made
 Em   Em/F#  G                                     D                       A     A7(4) 
See that   train comin', boys, rollin' down Main
 C                               C2                                     D                                 Em 
Draped in black, she won't be back  it's Lincoln's funeral train
 Em     Em/F#  G                           D                                                         A     A7(4) 
With a         portrait of a martyred man, shot down by a traitor
 C                                         C2                             D                     Em 
Now toll the bell and bid farewell to the Great Emancipator
             Em   D4  D(x4) 
verse 2
 G 
Crowds jammed the streets for a final look
               D 
At the great man who had stood
At the country's helm, through the bitter war
           C                   C2Em 
That seemed of little good
 G 
Felled by the bullet of John Wilkes Booth
                                       D 
As the battle died away, his guiding spirit to reconciled
       C             C2           Em 
By absence brought dismay
 Em   Em/F#  G                                     D                       A     A7(4) 
See that   train comin', boys, rollin' down Main
 C                               C2                                     D                                 Em 
Draped in black, she won't be back  it's Lincoln's funeral train
 Em     Em/F#  G                           D                                                         A     A7(4) 
With a         portrait of a martyred man, shot down by a traitor
 C                                         C2                             D                     Em 
Now toll the bell and bid farewell to the Great Emancipator
Middle 8

 C  C2  DEm 
(same strumming pattern as Chorus)
 Em   Em/F#  G                                     D                       A     A7(4) 
See that   train comin', boys, rollin' down Main
 C                               C2                                     D                                 Em 
Draped in black, she won't be back  it's Lincoln's funeral train
 Em     Em/F#  G                           D                                                         A     A7(4) 
With a         portrait of a martyred man, shot down by a traitor
 C                                         C2                             D                     Em 
Now toll the bell and bid farewell to the Great Emancipator
 C                                         C2                             D                     Em 
Now toll the bell and bid farewell to the Great Emancipator