The Train That Carried My Girl From Town

Doc Watson

Written by Frank Hutchison

Key of G · Chords: I IV

Verse 1

C
There goes the train that carried my girl from town
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If I knowed her number Lord I'd flag her down
Wish to the Lord that the train would wreck
                                 G7        C
Kill that engineer and break the fireman's neck

Verse 2

        G7         C
Hey the train that carried my girl from town
    G7      C
Hey hey hey hey

Verse 3

Where was you when the train left town
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I stand on the corner with my head hung down
If I had my gun I'd let the hammer down
                                         G7        C
Lord I'd shoot that rounder that took my girl from town

Verse 4

         G7         C
Hey that train that carried my girl from town
    G7      C
Hey hey hey hey

Verse 5

Rations on the table and the coffee's getting cold
                            G7       C
And some dirty rounder took my jelly roll
Hello Central give me six-o-nine
                       G7       C
I want to talk to that woman of mine

Verse 6

         G7         C
Hey that train that carried my girl from town
    G7      C
Hey hey hey hey

Verse 7

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
                                  G7      C
Can you show me that woman that a man can trust
There goes my girl somebody bring her back
                          G7       C
Cause she got her hand in my money sack

Verse 8

         G7         C
Hey that train that carried my girl from town
    G7      C
Hey hey hey hey