The Magnetic Fields – Fear Of Trains (Guitar)

           G               F              C
It was the army train that took her daddy from her

           G                F              C
It was the bible train that took her momma too

         Am                         Dm    C   G
And that high loud whistle made her horse run away

        G                   F                C
But the straw the broke the camel's back was you

           G                     F             C
It was the government train that took away her childhood

           G        F             C
It was the KKK that took away her past

           Am                    Dm      C   G
It was the white man's will that hers be broken

         G                   F             C
But that barefoot girl could run too fast

C                                     Am
Because the world's too cold for a girl like that with a

C                            G
Blackfoot soul  and a cowboy hat

     C                              Am
Everything she loved went down the dragon track

                  C        G    F   C
She had a fear of trains

C                         G
In the beet fields of Montana

Dm                          Am
She's always coming on dead rails

C                             G
to break the plow and whisper "Honey,

Dm                        Am
bound to live is bound to fail"

C                        G
And in a park in San Francisco

Dm                          Am
her momma shrieks about the Lord

C                                  G
And down the dead rails there's an echo

Dm                        Am
The wind is whistling all-aboard

C                                     Am
Because the world's too cold for a girl like that with a

C                            G
Blackfoot soul  and a cowboy hat

     C                              Am
Everything she loved went down the dragon track

                  C        G    F   C
She had a fear of trains

           G                     F             C
It was the wagon train that took away her country

           G                     F             C
It was the oil train that took away her land

           Am                    Dm      C   G
She could have been the belle of the ponderosa

           G                     F             C
but that was not the fat man's plan

C                                     Am
Because the world's too cold for a girl like that with a

C                            G
Blackfoot soul  and a cowboy hat

     C                              Am
Everything she loved went down the dragon track

                  C        G    F   C
She had a fear of trains