Intro: D5  (x2) 
 
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Down along the railroad tracks I ran into my old friend Jack. 
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He was dressed in his Sunday best but his face was red and his eyes were dead. 
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He said, "I lost Marina, and the last place that I seen her, 
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She was makin' off with my best friend." 
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I took him to the water. I spent fifty dollars 
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On something that would take him to the moon. 
        D5                               A5 
Well he must have gone to heaven 'cause just before I left him , 
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I tried to wake him up but he wouldn't move. 


          D5                       A5 
So come on, Carmelita, you drank too much and I can see that 
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Soon you're gonna need a breath of air. 
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We'll dance across the wheat field, there's a place I know just east of here 
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And it wouldn't take too long to go down there. 
      A5 
We'll sleep out on the ground 
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And in the morning when we wake up, we'll leave town.      
 

      D5                            A5 
And I picked my last tobacco leaf, soaking wet up to my knees, 
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Out there before the sun was on the rise. 
            D5                          A5 
And you can have a drink of water, but don't you look at my daughter, 
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Or I'll come down there and cut you with this knife. 
 
(Chorus) 
 

D5                              A5 
There ain't any flack man, but if you're a black man 
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They'll put you on a plane back to where you're from. 
 
(Chorus)