Guitar tab for Railroad Lady (var.1) by Willie Nelson free download and read or play online: file .txt, 3 kb has 158 views and 0 downloads.
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From: "Baur, Harold"
Subject: RE-SUBMISSION: Railroad Lady - Willie Nelson
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:28:20 +0200
Railroad Lady - co-written by Jerry Jeff Walker and Jimmy Buffet.
As performed on "Willie Nelson's greatest hits and some that will be"
# Submitter's note:
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# It's been almost 5 years ago since I submitted the first version of this song.
# Some of the lyrics we're missing because I couldn't understand them on the
# record, so I asked people to mail me the right lyrics if they had them. You
# won't believe the number of mails I got and you certainly won't believe the
# number of different interpretations.
#
# This is the corrected version, and I have selected the corrections that came
# closest to what I heard on the record. I never thought I'd regret asking for
# feedback, but I've created a monster and I'm very very very sorry about that
# so PLEASE STOP SENDING ME MAIL ABOUT THE LYRICS. If you must send mail, send
# it to Willie Nelson. Don't even think of sending me mail asking me for his
# email address, I don't have it :-)
# Regards, Bo.
Chorus:
F C
She's a railroad lady, just a little bit shady
G C
spendin' her days on the train
F C
She's a semi-good-looker but the fast rails they took her
G G7 C
now she's tryin', tryin' to get home again
Verse 1:
C F C
South station in Boston, to the stock yards of Austin
G
from the Florida sunshine, to the New Orlean's rain
C F C
Now that the rail packs have taken the best tracks
G C
She's tryin', tryin' to get home again
Chorus:
She's a railroad lady, just a little bit shady
spendin' her days on the train
Once a pullen car traveller, the switchmen won't have her
She's tryin', tryin' to get home again
Verse 2:
Once a high born loaner, thought he could own her
he bought her a fur coat and a big diamond ring
but she hocked 'em him for cold cash, left town on the Wabash
Never thinkin', never thinkin' of home way back then
Verse 3 (KEY-CHANGE: same chord pattern but in the key of D!):
But the rails are now rusty, and the diamond got dusty
and the gold plated watches have taken their toll
And the railroads are dyin', and the lady is cryin'
on a bus to Kentucky at home that's her goal
Chorus (still in D):
She's a railroad lady, just a little bit shady
spendin' her days on the train
She's a semi-good-looker but the fast rails they took her
now she's tryin', tryin' to get home again
D G A D
On a bus to Kentucky at home once again