Words and music Bob Dylan
Recorded Jan 1962 as a Leeds Music demo
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem
Open D tuning (D-A-d-f#-a-d'), capo 7th fret.
The interlude figure also appears in “Standing On The Highway”, recorded on the same occasion.
Chords:
G 020100 D7 000330
D G D G D Sad I'm sittin' on the railroad track G D Watchin' that old smokestack G D D7 D Train is a-leavin' but it won't be back.
D7 D
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--3-|-----3-3---1-------------|-----0------ etc.
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Years ago we hung around, Watchin' trains roll through the town. Now that train is a-graveyard bound. Where we go up in that North Country, Lakes and streams and mines so free, I had no better friend than he. Something happened to him that day, I thought I heard a stranger say, I hung my head and stole away. A diesel truck was rollin' slow, Pullin' down a heavy load. It left him on a Utah road. They carried him back to his home town, His mother cried, his sister moaned, Listin' to them church bells tone.