Tony Rice - Greenlight On The Southern guitar chord

Me And My Guitar-TK 4

GREENLIGHT ON THE SOUTHERN

G

Standing on the side track

D G

At the south end of town

On a dry, hot, dusty August day

D

The steam pipe blowing down

G

The fireman with his long oil can

D G

Oiling the old valve gears

D G

Waitin' for the fast mail train to Simmefore to clear

The engineer in the old high cab, his gold watch in his

hand

Lookin' at the water glass and lettin' down the sand

Rollin' out on the old main line and taking up the slack

Gone today, so they say, but tomorrow he'll be back

Chorus

G D G

Oh, if I could return

C D

To those boyhood days of mine

G

And that greenlight on the Southern

D G

Southern Railroad Line

Creeping down the rusty rails of the weed-grown branch

line

The section houses, grey and white by the yard limit sign

The hoggers call, the old high-ball, no more time to wait

Rollin' down to Birmingham with a ten car load of freight

Repeat Chorus

The whistle screamed with a hiss of steam, the headlight

gleams clear

The drivers roll on the green and gold, gettin' mighty

near

Handing out the orders to the engine crew on time

It's the Alabama Great Southern, AGS Railroad Line

Repeat Chorus Twice

My Disclaimer: I realize that Tony Rice wrote few songs himself; so if these

songs are repeats of other artists, sorry about that. Just puttin em out

since I got em.