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


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

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

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