Chords with lyrics
Ballad of the Screaming Iron Horse
Michael Adams
Standard Tuning
Electric - Clean
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
A augmentedA woman dropped her baby in the locks of an iron horse 27 years ago
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
No one heard her screams no one heard her cries no one even needed to know
A minorAm C majorC G+G
She dove down to save that child neither one mead it out alive
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
Now once a year at the stroke of 12 you can hear the screams and cries
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
Me and a couple buddies of mine were playin gon the railroad tracks
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
Shooting old beer cans with a red ryder knowing we'ed make it back
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
We sat down to take a short break and i found an empty bottle of wine
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
Then we heard a sound like a chill to the bone it was that womans cries