The Gnr Steam Train Ukulele chords by Big Tom And The Mainliners

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

🎸 Verse 1:

C  F                 G      C
The songs of Boxcar Willie, well they take me back again,
   G                         C
To my childhood days in Blaney when I saw my first steam train
    F                G            C
She was standing at the station with her smoke stacked black and tall,
   G                    C
Then she left for Enniskillen, then on to Donegal.


🎸 Verse 2:
  F                  G         C
The first time that I rode this train oh how my poor heart felt
   G              C
I was just another emigrant on my way to Holyhead
   F              G        C
I was leaving home that morning to seek fortune and fame
                G     C
So I left Castle Blaney on the GNR Steam train.

🎸 Chorus:
F                 C
Farmers working in the fields they always knew the time
   G               C         G
As I listened to her whistle as she thundered down the line
  C                 F
She took many folk away from home and brought them back again
  C              G     C
But now she's gone forever, that GNR steam train.

🎸 Verse 3:
  F                 G         C
She carried freight and livestock from factries and from fairs
  G             C
She also took the pilgrims to Lough Derg to say their prayers
F              G         C
Going to an Ulster Final she was really loaded down
                   G         C
And she steamed away from Ballybay to the game in Clones Town.

🎸 Verse 4:
  F                 G         C
Ah Taylors Tunnell is no more and the footbridge is now gone
   G                    C
There's a row of Red Bricked houses where the railway gates once swung
F                G           C
There are many men in Blaney who wished they were kids again
                      G     C
You could break and lose your heart on the GNR steam train.

🎸 Chorus:
F                 C
Farmers working in the fields they always knew the time
   G               C         G
As I listened to her whistle as she thundered down the line
  C                 F
She took many folk away from home and brought them back again
  C              G     C
But now she's gone forever, that GNR steam train.

🎸 Verse 5:
  F              G        C
And on her final journey she was shuttered to the side
                   G          C
The people mourned her passing like a dear friend who had died,
 F                 G        C
I saw big men broken hearted, their tears fell like rain
                   G     C
When they said goodbye forever to the GNR steam train.

🎸 Verse 6:
  F              G      C
So Boxcar blow your whistle and imitate your train
                G        C
The GNR or Western Union to me they’re both the same
   F               G        C
They are now a part of history but their memories remain
                    G       C
How I'd like to stop and listen to the whistle of the train.

🎸 Chorus:
F                 C
Farmers working in the fields they always knew the time
   G               C         G
As I listened to her whistle as she thundered down the line
  C                 F
She took many folk away from home and brought them back again
  C              G     C
But now she's gone forever, that GNR steam train.
  C              G     C
But now she's gone forever, that GNR steam train.