Status Quo – Slow Train (Guitar)

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As recorded by Status Quo (From the 1974 Album QUO) [Intro] E5 [Verse 1]
E5
I can't afford a ticket on an old Dakota airplane

E5
I gotta jump a ride on a cattle-trucking slow train

  F#5
I guess it doesn't matter

   B5                                    E5
As long as I can get my head down in the sun
[Verse 2]
E5
I wrote a rockin' song, gonna sing it at the station

E5
I'll finish all the words when I reach my destination

F#5
I guess it doesn't matter

   B5                                    E5
As long as I can get my head down in the sun
[Verse 3]
A                              E 
Hey mama, please now don't you fret none

      A                              E
Don't worry, but please don't you forget

    A                        E
Hey mama, please don't get upset now

        F#                         B
I gotta leave to find me something better
[Verse 4]
A                               E
Hey mama, things gonna work out fine now

  A                            E
Believe me, no need for you to write

    A                           E
Hey mama, things gonna work out fine now

        F#                           B        N.C.
I gotta friend who said that she'd invite me
[Interlude] A [Verse 5]
A
I came here in the morning and I crept out in the middle of night

A
I gave nobody warning I was leaving and I felt it was right

        B             E                   A
Now I'm off again, it sure is feeling all right
[Verse 6]
A
Got a feeling that I'm leaving with a ticket and I won't jump a ride

A
It's no good you believing that my leaving was a wrong, it was right

        B             E                   A
Now I'm off again, it sure is feeling all right
[Interlude] A B D A [Guitar Solo] A B D E A B D E A A B D A [Interlude] A B D A A G F# F E N.C. A E A D A A E A D A N.C. A N.C. [Drum Solo] N.C. [Interlude] A [Verse 7]
A
I can't afford a ticket on an old Dakota airplane

A
I gotta jump a ride on a cattle-trucking slow train

  B
I guess it doesn't matter

   E                                     A
As long as I can get my head down in the sun
[Verse 8]
A
I wrote a rockin' song, gonna sing it at the station

A
I'll finish all the words when I reach my destination

  B
I guess it doesn't matter

   E                                     A
As long as I can get my head down in the sun

  B
I guess it doesn't matter

   E                                     A
As long as I can get my head down in the sun

  B
I guess it doesn't matter

   E                         N.C.           A  E  A
As long as I can get my head down in the sun