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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:32:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: "T. Hickson" <
[email protected]>
Subject: c/clark_guy/texas_1947.crd
Song: Texas 1947
Artist: Guy Clark
Transcribed by: T. Hickson
>From the album "Keepers" (track 2), a live album. I m probably missing a
lot of the subtleties, but it s a nice, easy way to play it. Guy makes
the verses build as if a train is approaching and passing you by, but you
gotta hear it to make it work.
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Now bein six years old[/tab]
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I d seen some trains before,[/tab]
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so it s hard to figure out[/tab]
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what I m at the depot for.[/tab]
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Trains are big and black and smokin steam,[/tab]
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screamin at the wheels,[/tab]
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bigger than anything there is,[/tab]
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at least that s the way she feels[/tab]
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Trains are big and black and smokin ,[/tab]
louder than July four,
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but everybody s actin like[/tab]
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this might be somethin more...[/tab]
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...than just pickin up the mail[/tab]
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or the soldiers from the war,[/tab]
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this is somethin that even old man Wileman (?)[/tab]
[tab]
never seen before.[/tab]
BRIDGE:
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And it s late afternoon[/tab]
on a hot Texas day,
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somethin strange is goin on[/tab]
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and we s all in the way.[/tab]
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Well there s fifty or sixty people[/tab]
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they re just sittin on their cars,[/tab]
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and the old men left their dominoes[/tab]
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and they come down from the bars.[/tab]
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Everybody s checkin ,[/tab]
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old Jack Kittrel(?) checked his watch,[/tab]
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and us kids put our ears[/tab]
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to the rails to hear em pop.[/tab]
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So we already knowed[/tab]
when they finally said train time
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you d a-thought that Jesus Christ himself[/tab]
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was rollin down the line.[/tab]
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Cuz things got real quiet,[/tab]
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Momma jerked me back,[/tab]
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not before I d got the chance[/tab]
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to lay a nickel on the track.[/tab]
CHORUS:
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Look out here she comes, she s comin ,[/tab]
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Look out there she goes, she s gone,[/tab]
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screamin straight through Texas[/tab]
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like a mad dog cyclone.[/tab]
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Big, red, and silver,[/tab]
she don t make no smoke,
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she s a fast-rollin streamline[/tab]
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come to show the folks.[/tab]
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Look out here she comes, she s comin [/tab]
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Look out there she goes, she s gone,[/tab]
[tab]
screamin straight through Texas[/tab]
[tab]
like a mad dog cyclone.[/tab]
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...Lord, she never even stopped.[/tab]
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She left fifty or sixty people[/tab]
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still sittin on their cars,[/tab]
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and they re wonderin what it s comin to[/tab]
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and how it got this far.[/tab]
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Oh but me I got a nickel smashed[/tab]
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flatter than a dime[/tab]
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by a mad dog, runaway[/tab]
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red-silver streamline...train[/tab]
CHORUS:
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CHORDS ONLY, BY VERSE:
V1:
V2:
V3:
V4:
Bridge:
V5:
V6:
V7:
V8:
CHORUS:
V9:
V10:
CHORUS: