Jason Boland - Texas, 1947 guitar chord

Texas 1947

By Jason Boland & The Stragglers

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

5/23/04

E G

Now bein' six years old I'd seen some trains before

A B7 E

So it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for.

E G

Trains are big and black and smokin' steam, screamin' at the wheels

A B7 E

Louder than anything there is, at least that's the way she feels

B7

Trains are big and black and smokin', louder than July fourth

A B7 E

Everybody's actin' like this might be somethin' more

E G

Than just pickin' up the mail or the soldiers from the war

A B7 E

Even somethin' that even old man Wileman’s never seen before

BRIDGE:

F#m

And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day

A B7

Somethin' strange was goin' on and we's all in the way

Well there's fifty or sixty people just sittin' on their cars

And the old men left their dominoes and they come down from the bars

Everybody's checkin', old Jack Kittrel checked his watch

And us kids put our ears to the rails to hear 'em pop

So we already knowed it when they finally said 'train time

You'd a-thought that Jesus Christ himself was rollin' down the line

Cuz things got real quiet, Momma jerked me back

Not before I'd got the chance to lay a nickel on the track

Chorus:

E

Look out here she comes, she's comin'

A

Look out there she goes, she's gone

B7 A E

Screamin' straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone

B7

Big an red, and silver, Lord, she don't make no smoke

A B7 E

She's a fast-rollin' streamline come to show the folks

E

Said look out here she comes, she's comin'

A

Look out there she goes, she's gone

B7 A E

Screamin' straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone

Lord, she never even stopped

She left fifty, sixty people still sittin' on their cars

Wonderin' what it's comin' to and how it got this far

Me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime

By a mad dog, runaway red-silver streamline train

Chorus