Guy Clark – Texas 19 (Ukulele)
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:32:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: "T. Hickson" <[email protected]>
Subject: c/clark_guy/texas_1947.crd
Song: Texas 1947
Artist: Guy Clark
Transcribed by: T. Hickson
>From the album "Keepers" (track 2), a live album. I'm probably missing a
lot of the subtleties, but it's a nice, easy way to play it. Guy makes
the verses build as if a train is approaching and passing you by, but you
gotta hear it to make it work.
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Em Now bein' six years old G I'd seen some trains before, A so it's hard to figure out B Em what I'm at the depot for. Em Trains are big and black and smokin' steam, G screamin' at the wheels, A bigger than anything there is, B Em at least that's the way she feels B Trains are big and black and smokin',
louder than July four,
A but everybody's actin' like B Em this might be somethin' more... Em ...than just pickin' up the mail G or the soldiers from the war, A this is somethin' that even old man Wileman (?) B Em never seen before.
BRIDGE:
F#m
And it's late afternoonon a hot Texas day,
A somethin' strange is goin' on B Em and we's all in the way. Em Well there's fifty or sixty people G they're just sittin' on their cars, A and the old men left their dominoes B Em and they come down from the bars. Em Everybody's checkin', G old Jack Kittrel(?) checked his watch, A and us kids put our ears B Em to the rails to hear 'em pop. B So we already knowed
when they finally said 'train time'
A you'd a-thought that Jesus Christ himself B Em was rollin' down the line. Em Cuz things got real quiet, G Momma jerked me back, A not before I'd got the chance B Em to lay a nickel on the track.
CHORUS:
E Look out here she comes, she's comin', A Look out there she goes, she's gone, B screamin' straight through Texas A E like a mad dog cyclone. B Big, red, and silver,
she don't make no smoke,
A she's a fast-rollin' streamline B E come to show the folks. E Look out here she comes, she's comin' A Look out there she goes, she's gone, B screamin' straight through Texas A E like a mad dog cyclone. Em ...Lord, she never even stopped. Em She left fifty or sixty people G still sittin' on their cars, A and they're wonderin' what it's comin' to B Em and how it got this far. Em Oh but me I got a nickel smashed G flatter than a dime A by a mad dog, runaway B Em red-silver streamline...train
CHORUS:
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CHORDS ONLY, BY VERSE:
V1:
Em G A B Em
V2:
Em G A B Em
V3:
B A B Em
V4:
Em G A B Em
Bridge:
F#m A B Em
V5:
Em G A B Em
V6:
Em G A B Em
V7:
B A B Em
V8:
Em G A B Em
CHORUS:
E A B A E
B A B E
E A B A E
Em
V9:
Em G A B Em
V10:
Em G A B Em
CHORUS:
E A B A E
B A B E
E A B A E