The Carter Family – The Little Black Train (Guitar)

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[Intro] C F C [Chorus]
C
There’s a little black train a comin

C
Better set your business right

C
There’s a little black train a comin

       F             C
And it may be here tonight

C
Go tell that ball room lady

C
All dressed in the worldly pride

C
That death’s dark train is coming

   F              C
Prepare to take a ride
[Verse 1]
    C
God sent to Hezikai

C
A message from on high

C
You better set your house in order

    F               C
For you must surely die

   C
He turned to the wall in weeping

C
We see and hear his tears

C
He got his business fixed all right

    F                  C
God spared him fifteen years
[Chorus]
C
There’s a little black train a comin

C
Better set your business right

C
There’s a little black train a comin

       F             C
And it may be here tonight

C
Go tell that ball room lady

C
All dressed in the worldly pride

C
That death’s dark train is coming

   F              C
Prepare to take a ride
[Instrumental] C F C [Verse 2]
   C
We see that train with engine

C
And one small baggage car

C
Your idle thoughts and wicked deeds

     F                    C
Will stop at the judgment bar

C
That poor young man in darkness

C
Cares not for the gospel light

C
Til suddenly he hears the whistle blow

        F                     C
And the little black train in site
[Chorus]
C
There’s a little black train a comin

C
Better set your business right

C
There’s a little black train a comin

       F             C
And it may be here tonight

C
Go tell that ball room lady

C
All dressed in the worldly pride

C
That death’s dark train is coming

   F              C
Prepare to take a ride
[Instrumental] C F C [Verse 3]
     C
Have mercy on me please

C
Come and set me right

C
Before he got his business fixed

    F                    C
His train rolled in that night
[Outro]
C
There’s a little black train a comin

C
Better set your business right

C
There’s a little black train a comin

       F             C
And it may be here tonight

       F             C
And it may be here tonight

       F             C
And it may be here tonight