Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – This Train Keeps Rolling Along (Guitar)

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Written by Vincent Edward Melamed, Jimmy Ibbotson & Jim Photoglo Recorded by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band [Intro] G Em G Em
G              D         C                G
"All aboard in Montreal" I heard the con- ductor call

         D                    C
That old engine heaved a sigh

G             D               C                 G
Suitcases and shufflin' feet, found my way to a window seat

          D                     C
I love to watch the world go by

G                   D      C         G
Made friends with a family bound for Sault St. Marie

                      D                C
They said good-bye at Sudbury Junction

G                  D           C                       G
I guess I hated to see 'em go, thought about 'em as it started to snow

               D                 C
Time stops for nothin' or no one

     G           Bm            C    G           Bm           C
This train keeps rollin' along from here to the great beyond

G               Bm             Em              Am
Black smoke and pistons churn, steel rails and big wheels turn

           Bm    C       D       G D C
This train keeps rollin' along 

G                  D             C              G
'Cross the endless prairie land, mighty baffalo used to stand

                 D                   C
The cree and the blackfoot lived and died

G               D                                              G
Are the Rockies nestled in the trees,  C   I fell in love with Lake Louise

                 D                 C
Smilin' with her sparklin' emerald eyes

     G           Bm            C    G           Bm           C
This train keeps rollin' along from here to the great beyond

G               Bm             Em              Am
Black smoke and pistons churn, steel rails and big wheels turn

           Bm    C       D     G
This train keeps rollin' along

Bb                           F
Soon we'll reach the sea and there I'll stand

Bb                                   D
With nothing but the blue between me and Japan

G              D               C                G
Now I'm at the end of the line out of track and out of time

          D               C
Contuctor makes his final round

G                      D            C                   G
But all the people and places past, they went by just a little too fast

                      D                  C
How I wish I could've slowed this engine down

     G           Bm            C    G           Bm           C
This train keeps rollin' along from here to the great beyond

G               Bm             Em              Am
Black smoke and pistons churn, steel rails and big wheels turn

           Bm    C       D     G D
This train keeps rollin' along

     Am    Bm    C       D     G D
This train keeps rollin' along

     Am    Bm    C       D     G D
This train keeps rollin' along

Am Bm C  D        G       D
It keeps on rollin'

Am Bm C       D     G D
rollin' along

Am Bm C  D        G     D   Am Bm C D G
It keeps on roll- in'