E5 
Now bein' six years old 
    G5 
I'd seen some trains before, 
        A5 
so it's hard to figure out 
         B5            E5 
what I'm at the depot for. 
 
 
E5 
Trains are big and black and smokin' steam , 
G5 
screamin' at the wheels, 
A5 
bigger than anything there is, 
         B5                  E5 
at least that's the way she feels 
 
 
           B5 
Trains are big and black and smokin', 
 
louder than July four, 
    A5 
but everybody's actin' like 
     B5                  E5 
this might be somethin' more... 
 
 
E5 
...than just pickin' up the mail 
       G5 
or the soldiers from the war, 
        A5 
this is somethin' that even old man Wileman (?) 
B5             E5 
never seen before. 
 
BRIDGE: 
         F#5 
And it's late afternoon 
 
on a hot Texas day, 
                     A5 
somethin' strange is goin' on  
         B5          E5 
and we's all in the way. 
 
 
E5 
Well there's fifty or sixty people 
          G5 
they're just sittin' on their cars, 
        A5 
and the old men left their dominoes 
         B5                  E5 
and they come down from the bars. 
 
 
E5 
Everybody's checkin', 
         G5 
old Jack Kittrel(?) checked his watch, 
       A5 
and us kids put our ears 
       B5                 E5 
to the rails to hear 'em pop. 
 
 
   B5 
So we already knowed 
 
when they finally said 'train time' 
        A5 
you'd a-thought that Jesus Christ himself 
    B5                E5 
was rollin' down the line. 
 
 
E5 
Cuz things got real quiet, 
G5 
Momma jerked me back, 
A5 
not before I'd got the chance 
         B5             E5 
to lay a nickel on the track. 
 
CHORUS: 
E5 
Look out here she comes, she's comin', 
A5 
Look out there she goes, she's gone, 
B5 
screamin' straight through Texas 
       A5         E5 
like a mad dog cyclone. 
B5 
Big, red, and silver, 
 
she don't make no smoke, 
        A5 
she's a fast-rollin' streamline 
B5                E5 
come to show the folks. 
E5 
Look out here she comes, she's comin' 
A5 
Look out there she goes, she's gone, 
B5 
screamin' straight through Texas 
       A5         E5 
like a mad dog cyclone. 
 
 
E5 
...Lord, she never even stopped. 
 
 
E5 
She left fifty or sixty people 
      G5 
still sittin' on their cars, 
            A5 
and they're wonderin' what it's comin' to 
    B5               E5 
and how it got this far. 
 
 
E5 
Oh but me I got a nickel smashed 
G5 
flatter than a dime 
     A5 
by a mad dog, runaway 
    B5             E5 
red-silver streamline...train 
 
CHORUS: 
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CHORDS ONLY, BY VERSE: 
 
V1: 
E5  G5  A5  B5  E5 
V2: 
E5  G5  A5  B5  E5 
V3: 
B5  A5  B5  E5 
V4: 
E5  G5  A5  B5  E5 
Bridge: 
F#5  A5  B5  E5 
V5: 
E5  G5  A5  B5  E5 
V6: 
E5  G5  A5  B5  E5 
V7: 
B5  A5  B5  E5 
V8: 
E5  G5  A5  B5  E5 
CHORUS: 
E5  A5  B5  A5  E5 
 
B5  A5  B5  E5 
 
E5  A5  B5  A5  E5 
 
E5 
V9: 
E5  G5  A5  B5  E5 
V10: 
E5  G5  A5  B5  E5  
CHORUS: 
E5  A5  B5  A5  E5 
 
B5  A5  B5  E5 
 
E5  A5  B5  A5  E5