Chords with lyrics
♫ Verse 1:
A minorAm A minorAm
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
DmDm
I can't help but wonder
A minorAm
What's happening to my companions?
A minorAm
Are they lost? Are they found?
Have they counted the cost it'd take to bring down
DmDm A minorAm
All the earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon?
♫ Chorus:
FF DmDm
And there's a slow (slow) slow train comin' (train)
A minorAm
Up 'round the bend (comin')
♫ Verse 2:
A minorAm
I had a woman down in Alabama
DmDm A minorAm
She was a back-woods girl, but she sure was realistic
She said, "Boy, without a doubt, have to quit your mess and straighten out
DmDm
You could die down here
A minorAm
Be just another accident statistic"
♫ Chorus:
FF
'Cause there's a slow (slow)
DmDm
Slow train comin' (train)
A minorAm
Up around the bend (comin')
A augmentedA slow train comin'
♫ Verse 3:
A minorAm
When my baby went to Illinois
With some bad-talkin' boy she could destroy
DmDm A minorAm
A augmentedA real suicide case, but there was nothin' I could do to stop it
I don't care about economy, I don't care about astronomy
DmDm A minorAm
But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turnin' into puppets (oh)
♫ Chorus:
FF
'Cause there's a slow (slow)
DmDm
Slow train comin' (train)
A minorAm
Up around the bend (comin')
A augmentedA slow train comin'
FF
there's a slow (slow)
DmDm
Slow train comin' (train)
A minorAm
Up around the bend (comin')
A augmentedA slow train comin'
♫ Bridge:
A minorAm FF A minorAm FF
There's a woman (slow) On my block (train)
A minorAm FF
She just sit there (slow)
A minorAm FF
As the light grows dim (train)
C majorC G+G C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7 C majorC
She said, "Who's gonna take away his license to kill "
C majorC
Now they take him
A minorAm G+G
And they teach him
C majorC A minorAm
And they groom him for life
G+G FF
And they set him on a path
C majorC
Where he's bound to kill, hey
C majorC C majorC
And they bury him with stars
G+G FF
Sell his body like they do used cars
A minorAm FF A minorAm FF
There's a woman (slow) On my block (train)
A minorAm FF
She just sit there (slow)
A minorAm FF
Facin' the hill (train)
C majorC G+G C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7 C majorC
She said, "Who's gonna take away his license to kill "
A minorAm C majorC
You may be a noisemaker, spiritmaker, heartbreaker, mapmaker
FF C majorC
Leave no stone unturned
A minorAm
May be an actor in a plot
C majorC
That might be all that you got
DmDm G+G
Till you're whatever you clearly learned
♫ Outro:
FF
there's a slow (slow)
DmDm
Slow train comin' (train)
A minorAm
Up around the bend (comin')
Slow train comin'
FF
there's a slow (slow)
DmDm
Slow train comin' (train)
A minorAm
Up around the bend (comin')
Slow train comin'
FF DmDm A minorAm
There's a slow, there's a slow (slow)
FF DmDm
There's a slow, there's a slow train comin'
Slow train comin'
FF
there's a slow (slow)
DmDm
Slow train comin' (train)
A minorAm
Up around the bend (comin')
A augmentedA slow train comin