Intro: Open strumming in G

G
Up the Hudson Valley across NY State
     C
To Chicago then the plains
         D
All so easy and dream like
                  C               G
Crashing the salt flat day break
I hear "I'll take you home again Kathleen"
         C
Said in fogwinds out there that blow
               D
Across the rooftops of eerie old hangover
                G
San Francisco

Chorus 2X
                           D
Now I'm transcontinental
                Am
3000 miles from my home
                            C
I'm on the California Zephyr
                         G
Watching America roll by

                   G
I've hit the end of the trail
                                                C
Can't even drag my body I've been driven mad
For three years
D
Too much fame keeps a body busy
         C                             G
And a mind full of white port tears
Terrified by that sad song
                                C
Across rooftops mingled with the lachrymose cries
         D
Of the Salvation Army meeting on the corner
                                          G
Saying Satan is the cause of it all

Chorus 2X
                           D
Now I'm transcontinental
                Am
3000 miles from my home
                            C
I'm on the California Zephyr
                         G
Watching America roll by
Terrified by that sad song
                                C
Across rooftops mingled with the lachrymose cries
         D
Of the Salvation Army meeting on the corner
                                          G
Saying Satan is the cause of it all

Chorus 2X
                           D
Now I'm transcontinental
                Am
3000 miles from my home
                            C
I'm on the California Zephyr
                         G
Watching America roll by