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 C5 G5 F5 C5 Stole me from the games we played C5 G5 F5 F5 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 D5 A5 G5 G5 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