Tonart: E major
Verse 1
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I couldn't have been
much more than ten
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when I met her through a friend.
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Her skin was dark and wrinkled,
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her eyes were bright and kind.
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She played some of her songs for me,
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like Freight Train and Shake Sugary.
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She asked if I would play
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her some of mine.
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I hadn't played for very long.
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In fact, I'd written just one song.
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So I played that song I'd written
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and some others that I knew.
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She was gonna do a show
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in a couple weeks or so
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She asked if I would like to
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play there too
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Bm
And we sang the freight train
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on the Monument Lawn
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With a statue of Abe looking over us
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Over 70 years apart,
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but we were singing from the heart
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Like two kindred spirits in the night
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We were two kindred
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spirits in the night
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An d when I got up on that stage,
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I forgot about my age
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The fireflies were blinkin'
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It was a hot and a humid night
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I somehow knew right there and then
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I couldn't let that feeling in
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Like liver, I'd play music all my life
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Bm
And we sang the freight train
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With a statue of Abe looking over us
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over 70 years apart
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but we were singing from the heart
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like two kindred spirits
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We spirits in the night
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We were two kindred
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spirits in the night
I grew up near Washington, D .C.,
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and the monument in the song, course,
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is the Washington Monument.
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was in the Lincoln Memorial.
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Now 20 years have come and gone,
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and Libba Cotton has moved
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they tell us is waiting in the sky.
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She rode freight train as a child
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And sometimes now it makes me smile
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sic doesn't die
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And we sank the freight train
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On the Monument Lawn
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With a statue of Abe
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looking over us
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But we were singing from the heart,
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like two kindred spirits in the night.
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We were two kindred spirits in the night.
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