Tonart: D major•
Verse 1
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D
He rode the rails since
the great depression
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Fifty years out on the skids
He said you don't cross nobody
D
You'll be all right out here kid
Verse 2
D
Left my family in Pennsylvania
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Searchin' for work I hit the road
I met Frank in east Texas
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In a freight yard blown through with snow
Verse 3
D
From New Mexico to Colorado
Frank he showed me the ropes, sir
D
Just till I could get back on my feet
Verse 4
D
I hoed sugar beets outside
of Firebaugh
I picked the peaches from
They bunked us in a barn just like animals
Me and a hundred others
just like me
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A
Verse 5
D
We split up come the springtime
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I never seen Frank again
'Cept one rainy night he blew
by me on grainer
Shouted my name and disappeared
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in the rain and the wind
Verse 6
D
They found him shot dead
outside Stockton
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His body lyin' on a muddy hill
Nothin' taken, nothin' stolen
Somebody killed him just to kill
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Verse 7
D
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Late that summer I was rollin'
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through the plains of Texas
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D
A vision passed before my eyes A small
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D
house sittin' trackside
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With the glow of the saviours
Verse 8
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D
A woman stood cookin' in the kitchen
G
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Kid sat at the table with his old man
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Does he wonder where I am
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Verse 9
D
Tonight I pick my campsite carefully
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Outside the Sacramento Yard
Gather some wood and light a fire
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In the early winter dark
Verse 10
D
Wind whistling cold I pull my
coat around me
Make some coffee and stare
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out into the black night
I lie awake, I lie awake sir
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With my machete by my side
Verse 11
love and mercy
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Tonight I'm sorry could not fill my heart
Like one good rifle And
the name of who I ought to kill
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