Nanci Griffith – The Morning Train (Guitar)

Capo 4

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(Suzy Elkins - Robert Field) [Intro] G D C [Verse]

                   G
There's a morning train

Headed for New Orleans

          C
Carrying business men

              G
and week day shoppers

I got sixteen bucks

                    C
I got a dollar and change

Em             G                   D
That's not bad price for a one way ride

              G
On a morning train

G
I give you my devotion

You left me heartsick

                      C
Oh, you couldn't had hurt me more

                    G
Not workin' with a night stick

Now I'm tired of sharin'

             C
this bed of nails

Em             G                  D
So come first light I'm gonna be right

                 G
With the mornin' train

[Chorus]

    C       G          Am   G
So goodbye lover, I'm goin' undercover

C         G            A      D
Crescent City's gonna swallow me

C       G               Am          G
Skip my ring 'cross the Mississippi River

 G
When it sinks, well I won't' feel a thing

 G
When it sinks, well I won't feel a thing

[Verse]

 G
Oh well I'm gonna be stayin'

With a short time acquaintance

                        C
When I met him he was playin'

                    G
On the Gulf Breeze Circuit

He didn't play no hit songs

       C
or TV themes

Em            G                D
He's a guitar man just a hired hand

             G
From a local band

[Chorus]

    C       G          Am   G
So goodbye lover, I'm goin' undercover

C        G             A      D
Crescent City's gonna swallow me

C       G               Am          G
Skip my ring 'cross the Mississippi River

 G
When it sinks, well I won't' feel a thing

 G
When it sinks, well I won't feel a thing

                                 Gm
The whistles blowin' clear and loud

[Interlude] G C G C Em G D G [Verse]

G
Now when I hit the station

I'll take a taxi to the corner

                         C
I'm gonna meet him by a street car

                     G
Name of what-cha-ma-call-it

And my imagination

                    C
Won't let us miss a thing

Em                    G                        D
Cause life's gonna be fine when I leave him behind

                 G
On that mornin' train

[Chorus]

    C       G          Am   G
So goodbye lover, I'm goin' undercover

C        G             A      D
Crescent City's gonna swallow me

C       G               Am          G
Skip my ring 'cross the Mississippi River

 G
When it sinks, well I won't' feel a thing

 G
When it sinks, well I won't feel a thing

[Outro] G D C