Big Train From Memphis

Written by John Fogerty

Key of D · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

     D     G             D
When I was young I spent my summer days
               A
playing on the track.
The sound of the wheels rolling on the steel
     D
took me out took me back

Chorus

    G     D
Big train from Memphis
    G     D
Big train from Memphis
    A         D
now it’s gone gone gone
     A    D
gone gone gone

Verse 2

Like no one before he let out a roar
    D             A
and I just had to tag along
each night I went to bed with the sounds in my head
        D
and the dream was the song

Verse 3

Well I rode ’em in and back out again
    D                      A
and you know what they say about trains
        D                            G
But I’m tellin you when that Memphis train came through
     D
this old world was not the same