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Fear Of Trains by The Magnetic Fields

Fear Of Trains tab by The Magnetic Fields

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my band Leslie Can't Love plays this so I figured why not transcribe it.
Chords with words are first.  Some riffs are tabbed at the bottom.

Fear of Trains by the Magnetic Fields.  'Charm of the Highway Strip'


into: Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramFF   Chord diagramC majorC

VERSE 1:
           Chord diagramG+G               Chord diagramFF              Chord diagramC majorC
It was the army train that took her daddy from her

           Chord diagramG+G                Chord diagramFF              Chord diagramC majorC
It was the bible train that took her momma too

         Chord diagramA minorAm                         Chord diagramDmDm    Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramG+G
And that high loud whistle made her horse run away

        Chord diagramG+G                   Chord diagramFF                Chord diagramC majorC
But the straw the broke the camel's back was you
           Chord diagramG+G                     Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramC majorC
It was the government train that took away her childhood

           Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramC majorC
It was the KKK that took away her past

           Chord diagramA minorAm                    Chord diagramDmDm      Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramG+G
It was the white man's will that hers be broken

         Chord diagramG+G                   Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramC majorC
But that barefoot girl could run too fast


CHORUS:
Chord diagramC majorC                                             Chord diagramA minorAm
Because the world's too cold  for a girl like that with a

Chord diagramC majorC                            Chord diagramG+G
Blackfoot soul  and a cowboy hat

     Chord diagramC majorC                                    Chord diagramA minorAm
Everything she loved went down the dragon track

                  Chord diagramC majorC        Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramFF   Chord diagramC majorC
She had a fear of trains
BRIDGE:
Chord diagramC majorC                         Chord diagramG+G
In the beet fields of Montana

Chord diagramDmDm                          Chord diagramA minorAm
She's always coming on dead rails

Chord diagramC majorC                             Chord diagramG+G
to break the plow and whisper "Honey,

Chord diagramDmDm                        Chord diagramA minorAm
bound to live is bound to fail"

Chord diagramC majorC                        Chord diagramG+G
And in a park in San Francisco

Chord diagramDmDm                          Chord diagramA minorAm
her momma shrieks about the Lord

Chord diagramC majorC                                  Chord diagramG+G
And down the dead rails there's an echo

Chord diagramDmDm                        Chord diagramA minorAm
The wind is whistling all-aboard


CHORUS


VERSE2:  (same chords as before)
It was the wagon train that too away her country
It was the oil train that took away her land
She could have been the belle of the ponderosa
but that was not the fat man's plan


CHORUS


Guitar riff during verses and intro:
E-------------------1--0-----------------------------------------
B-------1--0---1-------------------------------------------------
G------------------------------0^2^0------------0^2^0------------
D-------------------------------------0^2--------------0^2-------
A--------------------------3-----------------3--------------3----
E---3----------1-------------------------------------------------

Guitar riff at the end of the Chorus:
E-------1^0-------------------------1^0--------------------------
B------------3^1--------------------------3^1--------------------
G------------------2--2---0---------------------0----------------
D------------------------------3----------------2----------------
A---3-------------------------------------------3----------------
E------------------3-----------1---------------------------------

Guitar/keyboard riff during the bridge:
E-------3-----------3-------------1-----------0------------------
B--1-----------0-------------------------------------------------
G----------------------------2-------------2---------------------
D----------------------------0-----------------------------------
A--3---------------------------------------0---------------------
E--------------3-------------------------------------------------

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