Daddy Whats A Train chords by John Denver

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Key: E MajorE

🎸 Intro:

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🎸 Chorus:
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Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
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Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
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Is it bigger than our house? Well, how can I explain
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When my little boy and girl ask me "Daddy what's a train "

🎸 Verse 1:
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When I was just a boy and living by the track
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Us kids would gather up the coal in big old gunnysacks
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Then we heard the warning sound as the train pulled into view
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The engineer would smile and wave as she went rolling through

🎸 Verse 2:
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She blew so loud and clear, we had to cover up our ears
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And we counted cars just as high as we could go
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I can almost hear the steam, those big old drivers scream
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A augmentedA sound my little kids will never know

🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD              G+G
Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
    D MajorD                E minorEm     A augmentedA
Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
   D MajorD              G+G
Is it bigger than our house? Well, how can I explain
    D MajorD              G+G   A augmentedA    D MajorD
When my little boy and girl ask me "Daddy what's a train "

🎸 Verse 3:
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I guess the times have changed, kids are different now
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Cause some don't even seem to know that milk comes from a cow
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My little boy can tell the names of all the baseball stars
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I remember how we memorized the names on railroad cars

🎸 Verse 4:
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The Wabash and the TP
Lackawanna, the IC
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The Nickel Plate and the good old Santa Fe
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Just names out of the past
I guess they're fading fast
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Every time I hear my little boy say

🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD              G+G
Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
    D MajorD                E minorEm     A augmentedA
Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
   D MajorD              G+G
Is it bigger than our house? Well, how can I explain
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When my little boy and girl ask me "Daddy what's a train "

🎸 Verse 5:
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We climbed into the car, drove down into town
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Right up to the depot house, but no one was around
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We searched the yard together for something I could show
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But I knew there hadn't been a train for a dozen years or so

🎸 Verse 6:
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All the things I did when I was just a kid
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How far away those memories appear
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I guess it's plain to see they still mean a lot to me
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Because my ambition was to be an engineer

🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD              G+G
Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
    D MajorD                E minorEm      A augmentedA
Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
   D MajorD              G+G
Is it bigger than our house? Well, how can I explain
    D MajorD              G+G   A augmentedA    D MajorD
When my little boy and girl ask me "Daddy what's a train "

🎸 Outro:
D MajorD G+G D MajorD