Waiting For A Train chords by Billy Bragg

Chords with lyrics

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

🎸 Intro:
| D MajorD G+G | C majorC |


🎸 Verse 1:
        C7C7
All around the water tanks
FF       C majorC
Waiting for a train
 FF        C majorC
A augmentedA thousand miles away from home
D7D7       G+G
Sleepin' in the rain

🎸 Verse 2:
 C majorC           C7C7
I walked up to a brakeman
  FF         C majorC
To give him a line of talk
  FF         C majorC
He said if you've got money
   D7D7    D MajorD     G+G
I'll see that you don't walk

🎸 Verse 3:
 C majorC          C7C7
I haven't got a nickel
   FF      E MajorE  E7E7
Not a penny can I show
  FF         C majorC    A minorAm
Get off, get off, you railroad bum
    D7D7      G+G   C majorC
And he slammed that boxcar door

Break:
| C majorC | G7G7 | C majorC | C majorC |
(yodel 3bars)

🎸 Verse 4:
         C7C7
He put me off in Texas
 FF       C majorC
A augmentedA state I dearly love
  FF           C majorC
The wide open spaces all around me
    D7D7         G7G7
And the moon and the stars above

🎸 Verse 5:
C majorC           C7C7
Nobody seems to want me
  FF         C majorC
Or lend me a helpin' hand
  FF       C majorC
I'm on my way from Frisco Bay
    DmDm      G7G7
Headin' back to Dixieland

🎸 Verse 6:
  C majorC         C7C7
My pocketbook is empty
    FF          E MajorE  E7E7
And my heart is filled with pain
   FF        C majorC    A minorAm
I'm a thousand miles away from home
D7D7   G+G   C majorC
Waiting for a train

🎸 Outro:
| C majorC | G+G | C majorC |
(yodel)