Key: D
Introduction:
D A
Thrown off the bridge
D G
To the river by the ridge
D G D
Was the iron mountain baby
D A
A man walking by
D G
Said he heard a little cry
D A D
And he found him in a suitcase
D A
Fifty feet down
D G
from the train to the ground
D A D
It's a miracle that he survived
D A D G
What are the chances that a man would be standin' there
D G D
And take him home to his wife
G D
Sarah Jane
A D
Sarah Jane
G D A D
Be a mama to the boy from the train
G D
Sarah Jane
A D
Sarah Jane
G D A D
Be a mama to the boy from the train
D A D G D A D
Five days old with a hand that could hold in a grip around your finger
D A D G D G D
Old Sarah Jane, no she never did complain, cause she loved the little stranger
D A
She brought him back to health
D G
And she kept him for herself
D A D
When some women tried to claim him
D A D G
"If you'd been a good mama then you never would've wanna
D G D
Gone and thrown him off of the train then"
G D
Sarah Jane
A D
Sarah Jane
G D A D
Be a mama to the boy from the train
G D
Sarah Jane
A D
Sarah Jane
G D A D
Be a mama to the boy from the train
G D G D
Woo oo baby!
G D A D
Woo oo you're my baby now!
G D G D
Woo oo baby!
G D A D
Woo oo you're my baby now!
D A
A picture in the paper
D G
Showed the baby like an angel
D A D
With the savior and the suitcase
D A
What kind of devil
D G
Could have thrown the little fellow
D G D
Off the train in the first place?
D A D G D A D
His mama must've died givin' birth to the child, and the daddy went crazy
D G D G A D
Got on the train with a heart full of pain and took it out on the baby
G D
Sarah Jane
A D
Sarah Jane
G D A D
Be a mama to the boy from the train
G D
Sarah Jane
A D
Sarah Jane
G D A D
Be a mama to the boy from the train
G D G D
Woo oo baby!
G D A D
Woo oo you're my baby now!
G D G D
Woo oo baby!
G D A D
Woo oo you're my baby now!
D A D G D A D
A civil war vet went to see if he could get a bit of timber for a new barn
D A D G A D
The number 4 sped. From the train overhead came the itty bitty newborn