Train That Carried My Girl

Traditional

Written by Frank Hutchison

Key of G · Chords: I V

Verse 1

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

Chorus

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Hey, the train that carried my girl from town
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Hey, hey, hey, hey

Verse 2

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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
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Wish to the Lord that the train would wreck
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Kill that engineer and break the fireman's neck

(Chorus)

Verse 3

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

(Chorus)

Verse 4

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