Amelias Railroad Flat chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

Tom Russell - Amelia’s Railroad Flat


CAPO: 4th Fret


Intro:
C majorC

Verse 1:
              FF
Amelia, she worked for the railroad
G+G          C majorC
Doing what, I never knew
               DmDm
But I’d meet her down at the depot
G+G           C majorC
Every day at half-past two

Verse 2:
              FF
And we climbed the old wood stairway
G+G           C majorC
Find the key below the mat
            DmDm
Watch the sunset on the freight yard
G+G            C majorC
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat


Verse 3:
           FF
Russian vodka in the freezer
G+G           C majorC
From the Polish liquor store
            DmDm
Spanish rice, Moroccan oranges
G+G           C majorC
Persian rugs upon the floor


Verse 4:
           FF
And Amelia came from Denmark
G+G              C majorC
She bought a pair of Siamese cats
                DmDm
They’d wake us up there in the morning
G+G          C majorC
At Amelia’s railroad flat

Bridge:
     A minorAm                  FF
And every night the midnight ghost rode out on time
A minorAm                FF
Rolling down the line at twelve-o-nine
     A minorAm                FF
And we’d sit and count the cars out on the track
    C majorC                       G+G
As they shook the bedroom window of Amelia’s railroad flat


Instrumental:
G+G  FF  G+G  C majorC   DmDm  G+G  C majorC


Verse 5:
                FF
But the freight yards, they are gone now
G+G              C majorC
And the buildings block the sun
           DmDm
And Amelia sailed for Demark
G+G              C majorC
Way back in Nineteen Eighty-One


Verse 6:
            FF
But every time I hear a freight train
  G+G            C majorC
Or watch the sunset on the tracks
              DmDm
Lord, I recall those summer evenings
G+G            C majorC
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat


Verse 7:
            FF
And every time I hear a freight train
G+G            C majorC
Blowing lonely down the track
               DmDm
I hear those bedroom windows rattle
G+G            C majorC
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat
                DmDm
Lord, how those bedroom windows rattled
G+G            C majorC
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat