Lightfoot Gordon - Steel Rail Blues guitar tab

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Steel Rail Blues

(Gordon Lightfoot)

Capo: 2nd Fret

TURN-AROUND between verses: C G(B) Am G (x2)

BRIDGE: F Em F C

F G Am G(B) c

C

Well, I got my mail late last night

F

A letter from a girl who found the time to write

C

To her lonesome boy somewheres in the night

F

She sent me a railroad ticket too -

C

To take me to her lovin' arms

Am G C

And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love

C

Well, I've been out here many long days

F

Haven't found a place that I could call my own

C

Not a two-bit bed to lay my body on.

F

I 've been stood up, I've been shook down -

C

I've been dragged into the sand

Am G C

And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love

Well, I've been uptight most every night

Walking the streets of this old town

Not a friend around to tell my troubles to

My good old car, she done broke down

Cause I drove it into the ground

And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love

Well, look over yonder across the plain,

The big drive wheels a-poundin' in the lonely ground

Gonna get on-board and I'll be homeward bound

Well I ain't had a home-cooked meal

And Lord I need one now

And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love

Well here I am with my head in the sand

Standin' on the broad highway - would you give a ride

To a lonesome boy who missed the train last night

I went in town for one last round

And I gambled my ticket away

And the big steel rail won't carry me home to the one I love