Santa Fe At Midnight chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

[Intro]
G+G                  E minorEm
Look at that headlight shining through the rain
C majorC               D MajorD       N.C.
It must be that old Santa Fe freight train


[Verse 1]
G+G                    E minorEm
Yeah, I’m standing on Salteo Tile on an old adobe porch
  C majorC                        G+G
Across the street the Baptist church, God’s own neon torch
                      G+G
With my baby sleeping safe inside, I’m the shadow she’s the light.
   C majorC             D MajorD      G+G
Now here comes the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.

[Verse 2]
G+G                   E minorEm
Baby wakes up and calls to me: “What is that lonesome sound?
C majorC                    G+G
It echoes off the mountains out near the lights of town.”
                    G+G
And I say, “Hush now, I come to you an hold you oh so tight
    C majorC             D MajorD      G+G
And rock you to the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.”


[Chorus]
C majorC                  G+G
Blowing through those cotton fields near Cana’tior river breaks
E minorEm            G+G
past the shanty towns of old Juarez,
   C majorC      D MajorD
The eagle and the snake
C majorC            D MajorD        E minorEm
Blowin across West Texas rattlin' out of sight
  C majorC      D MajorD      G+G
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight,
    E minorEm            D MajorD      G+G
Making love to the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.


[Instrumental Break]
C majorC D MajorD G+G    E minorEm D MajorD G+G

[Verse 3]
   G+G                 E minorEm
Well look where we have ended up on the edge of the Great South West
  C majorC                       G+G
Starin’ at those restless trees along the water ditch
                    G+G
And up the Street the Rio Grande like Egypt’s old Blue Nile
            C majorC       D MajorD       G+G
With the memory of the early ones who rested here a while.

[Verse 4]
           G+G                E minorEm
But now the freight trains and the long haul trucks, they’re passin’ through
   C majorC                 G+G
They don’t have the urge to wink at the likes of me and you
                      G+G
It’s all just diesel smoke, iron rail and a running string of lights
   C majorC      D MajorD      G+G
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight.


[Chorus]
C majorC                  G+G
Blowing through those cotton fields near Cana’tior river breaks
E minorEm            G+G
past the shanty towns of old Juarez,
   C majorC       D MajorD
The eagle and the snake
C majorC             D MajorD        E minorEm
Blowin across West Texas rattlin' out of sight
   C majorC       D MajorD     G+G
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight,
    E minorEm            D MajorD      G+G