Lincolns Funeral Train chords by Norman Blake

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:

E minorEm   G+G                     D MajorD
On the twenty-first of April, eighteen and sixty-five
                   C majorC     B minorBm      E minorEm
Three-thirty-one left Washington for Lincoln's last train ride
  G+G                            D MajorD
The cannons boomed, the bonfires burned, the evergreens wore grey
                     C majorC      B minorBm    E minorEm
Three-thirty-one in the morning sun, the hearse, that journey made


Chorus:

E minorEm       G+G
See that train coming, boys
D MajorD        A augmentedA Asus2Asus2
Rolling down the main
C majorC          B minorBm    D MajorD
Draped in black, she won't be back
E minorEm
It's Lincoln's funeral train
E minorEm    G+G             Asus4Asus4     A augmentedA
With the portrait of a martyred man shot down by a traitor
  C majorC        B minorBm          D MajorD      E minorEm
Now toll the bell and bid farewell to the great emancipator

Verse 2:

E minorEm   G+G                              D MajorD
Crowd's jam the streets for a final look, At the great man who had stood
                          C majorC     B minorBm      E minorEm
At the country's helm through the bitter war, That seemed of little good
G+G                                D MajorD
Felled by the bullet of John Wilkes Booth, As the battle died away
                  C majorC    B minorBm   E minorEm
His guiding spirit to reconcile by absence brought dismay


Chorus:

E minorEm       G+G
See that train coming, boys
D MajorD        A augmentedA Asus2Asus2
Rolling down the main
C majorC          B minorBm    D MajorD
Draped in black, she won't be back
E minorEm
It's Lincoln's funeral train
E minorEm    G+G             Asus4Asus4     A augmentedA
With the portrait of a martyred man shot down by a traitor
  C majorC        B minorBm          D MajorD      E minorEm
Now toll the bell and bid farewell to the great emancipator
  C majorC        B minorBm          D MajorD      E minorEm
Now toll the bell and bid farewell to the great emancipator