Tabbed by: lostpanda


Tuning: standard

The intro and the last two lines of each verse are palm muted.

C5 G5 F5 C5
C5 C5 G5 C5
C5 G5 F5 C5
C5 G5 C5 C5

     C5      G5      F5       C5
Well once I knew a railway girl
    C5      G5     C5    C5
Her age was seventeen
  C5        G5     F5      C5
I gave her all I had to give
        C5       G5     F5      F5
But the baggage of my dreams
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Stole me from the games we played
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Scorned me for my mast
    C5        G5        F5       C5
And if she's gone she lingers on
  C5       G5            C5     C5
I beg you please don't ask

      C5      G5       F5     C5
T'was on her dark March evening
C5          G5     C5    C5
Southbound I did ride
   C5        G5       F5
My head was out the window
C5      C5         G5     F5    F5
When I found her at my side
C5           G5     F5      C5
Asked where I was going to
  C5        G5       F5    F5
I told but where I came
        C5        G5          F5       C5
For the jails in which I've done my time
  C5      G5       C5    C5
I fail hard to regain

     C5          G5       F5        C5
Dark girl, dark girl it kills me so
   C5         G5    C5    C5
To watch you so afraid
    C5         G5           F5       C5
You know that you've been real to those
     C5        G5         F5      F5
When realness should be feigned
    C5         G5       F5          C5
Her eyes gone wide, "Alive," she cried
     C5        G5    F5    F5
Does pleasure ever last?
   C5       G5        F5      C5
We live to see, but patiently
  C5       G5            C5    C5
I beg you please don't ask

    D5       A5      G5      D5
She took me in despite my sins
D5      A5       D5    D5
Fed me tea and such
    D5      A5         G5      D5
And as she fell just like a child
  D5         A5         G5     G5
I crumbled 'neath her touch
  D5       A5         G5       D5
I held my breath in fear to weep
        D5         A5     G5    G5
For the fragments of my brain
    D5          A5     G5      D5
See each day's but a moment that
  D5      A5       D5    D5
I fail hard to regain

    D5     A5        G5         D5
But as it goes the people it throws
    D5      A5      D5     D5
Our values to the street
D5           A5        G5       D5
Whole world came and saint's gaze
  D5        A5      G5    G5
Impatience in his feet
    D5        A5       G5      D5
And captives of this paltry trade
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We curse our mortal past
   D5       A5         G5        D5
Forgive us though we all must go
    D5        A5            D5   D5
And where to please don't ask

repear chords for last verse without lyrics

last verse palm muted
    C5     G5    F5        C5
And now I am a misspent man
    C5        G5           C5   C5
Who knows not where he's been
    C5         G5           F5        C5
And though so sapped with suffering
    C5        G5     F5    F5
The worst is yet unseen
  C5        G5        F5            C5
Renounce myself for further wealth
  C5         G5         F5   F5
I take each breath in vain
      C5       G5       F5       C5
Still haunted by that railway girl
  C5       G5      C5   C5
I fail hard to regain

C5 G5 F5 C5
C5 G5 C5 C5
C5 G5 F5 C5
C5 G5 F5 F5
C5 G5 F5 C5
C5 G5 F5 F5
(palm muted)
C5 G5 F5 C5
C5 G5 C5 C5