Steve Earle : Train A-Comin'

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There's a train a comin', there's a train a comin'

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Hear them tracks a hummin', there's a train a comin' Can't you hear her blowin', can't you hear her blowin' Wonder where she's goin', can't you hear her blowin' Run down the station, run down to the station Dread and fascination, run down to the station

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Don't you want to ride her, don't you want to ride her Wonder what's inside her, don't you want to ride her She ain't bound for nowhere, she ain't bound for nowhere Engineer just don't care, she ain't bound for nowhere

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She run down the mountain, she run down the mountain She won't even slow down, awe down the mountain There's a train a comin', there's a train a comin' Hear them tracks a hummin', there's a train a comin'

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Intro: instrumental verse

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I wish I'd never come back home

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It don't feel right since I've been grown

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I can't find any of my old friends hanging around

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Won't nothing bring you down like your hometown I spent some time in New Orleans I had to live on rice and beans I hitched through Texas when the sun was beating down Won't nothing bring you down like your hometown

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Home is where the heart is

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Ain't that what they always say?

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My heart lies in broken pieces

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Scattered along the way So don't think about me when I'm gone I don't mind traveling alone You are the sweetest little thing that I ever found Won't nothing bring you down like your hometown

Instrumental verse

Home is where the heart is Ain't that what they always say? My heart lies in broken pieces Scattered along the way So don't think about me when I'm gone I don't mind traveling alone You are the sweetest little thing that I ever found Won't nothing bring you down like your hometown Sugar, won't nothing bring you down like your hometown

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If you see her out tonight And she tells you it's just the lights

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That brings her here and not her loneliness

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That's what she says but sometimes she forgets If she tells you she don't need a man She's had all the comfort she can stand You'd best believe every word she says But don't give up 'cause sometimes she forget

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Sometimes she forgets that not too long ago she swore

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She wasn't gonna let her heart be broken anymore So now she keeps it locked away It grows colder every day And it won't warm to any man's caress That's what she says but sometimes she forgets

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Sometimes she forgets that not too long ago she swore

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She wasn't gonna let her heart be broken anymore So if you see her out tonight And she tell you it's just the lights That bring her here and not her loneliness That's what she says but sometimes she forgets

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Hey now don't give up 'cause sometimes she forgets

Capo:

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Me and old Bill there we both come from Georgia

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Met Hank out in New Mexico

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We're bound for Durango to join Pancho Villa

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We hear that he's paying in gold I guess a man's got to do what he's best at Ain't found nothing better so far Been called mercenaries and men with no country Just soldiers in search of a war

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We're bound for the border

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We're soldiers of fortune

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We'll fight for no country

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But we'll die for good pay

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Under the flag of the green-back dollar

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Or the peso down Mexico way

Instrumental verse

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| When this war is over, I might go back to Georgia And settle down quiet somewhere I'll most likely pack up and head south for Chile Heard tell there's some trouble down there We're bound for the border We're soldiers of fortune We'll fight for no country But we'll die for good pay Under the flag of the green-back dollar Or the peso down Mexico way We're bound for the border We're soldiers of fortune We'll fight for no country But we'll die for good pay Under the flag of the green-back dollar Or the peso down Mexico way We're bound for the border We're soldiers of fortune We'll fight for no country But we'll die for good pay Under the flag of the green-back dollar Or the peso down Mexico way

Capo:

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Harp:

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with capo] (straight)

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I remember holdin' on to you

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All them long and lonely nights I put you through

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Somewhere in there I'm sure I made you cry

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But I can't remember if we said goodbye

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But I recall all of them nights down in Mexico

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One place I may never go

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In my life again

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Was I just off somewhere just too high

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Well I can't remember if we said goodbye

Harmonica verse

I only miss you every now and then Like a soft breeze blowin' up from the Caribbean Most Novembers I break down and cry But I can't remember if we said goodbye But I recall all of them nights down in Mexico One place I may never go In my life again Was I just off somewhere just too high But I can't remember if we said goodbye

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But I can't remember if we said goodbye

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Goodbye

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Everyone in Nagadoches knew Tom Ames

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Would come to some bad end

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'Cause the sheriff had caught him stealing chickens and such

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From the time that he was ten One day his daddy took a ten dollar bill And he tucked it in his hand He said I know you're headed for trouble son Your mama wouldn't understand So he took his dad's money and his brother's old bay And he left without a word of thanks Fell in with this crowd in a bordertown And he took to robbin' banks

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Outside the law his luck a-ran out fast A few years came and went Till he was trapped up in an alley in Abilene With all but four shells spent And he realized then that prayin' Was the only thing he hadn't ever tried He didn't know quite how to do it But he looked up to the sky He said "You don't owe me nothin' and as far as I know, Lord I don't owe nothin' to you I ain't askin' for a miracle Lord A little bit of luck will do You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin' was just like beggin' And I don't take charity

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Lord, I've had some breaks in my life As you already know I've had some help from the good Lord and the devil himself's Been strictly touch and go Right here now with my back to the wall I can't help but recall How they nearly hung me for stealin' a horse In Fort Smith, Arkansas Judge Parker said guilty and his gavel came down Just like a cannon shot I went away quietly I beg an to file and plot They sent that old preacher down to my cell He said, "The Lord is your only hope He'll be the only friend you have, son When you hit the end of Parker's rope" Well, I guess he could've kept on preachin' till Christmas But he turned his back on me I put a homemade blade to that golden throat And asked the deputy for the key Ah, but who in the hell am I talkin' to? There ain't no one here but me So he cocked both his pistols, spit in the dirt And walked into that street

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I'm the keeper of your heart

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I keep the flame when were apart

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I'm the lover in you arms

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Or a baby soft and warm

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I'm a hero in your eyes

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I'm a comfort when you cry

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When you hurt me I'm your fool

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But I'm nothing without you

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No I'm nothing without you

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It don't matter what I do

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If I win or if I lose

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Sweetheart I'm nothing without you

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I'm a beacon in the night To show the way until its light I'm a stumbler in the dark When I can't say what's in my heart I'm a poet just the same Every time I speak your name I'm just a shadow when I'm blue But I'm nothing without you No I'm nothing without you It don't matter what I do If I win or if I lose Sweetheart I'm nothing without you

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Everybody call her angel

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She's no stranger to the devil I know

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His mark is on her body

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His fire's burnin' in her soul

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When we're makin' love

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He's laughin' at us down below

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She's the devil I know

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She's the devil I know

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She's the devil I know

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says she's come from heaven

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Angel is the devil I know

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She's the devil I know Now she's the kind a woman Keep you comin' back for more Got the kind of face You swear you seen someplace before Well it could've been your mamma Could've been a Mexican whore She's the devil I know She's the devil I know She's the devil I know Says she comes from heaven Angel is the devil I know She's the devil I know

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Now she'd drag you straight to hell I can tell and I think I'll just go Yeah the devil sent her here To deliver me body and soul Yeah and every inch she drags me down I'm closer to the glow She's the devil I know She's the devil I know She's the devil I know Says she comes from heaven Angel is the devil I know She's the devil I know

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We signed up in San Antone, my brother Paul and me

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To fight with Ben McCulloch and the Texas infantry

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Well the poster said we'd get a uniform and seven bucks a week

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The best rations in the army and a rifle we could keep When I first laid eyes on the general I knew he was a fighting man He was every inch a soldier, every word was his command Well his eyes were cold as the lead and steel forged into tools of war He took the lives of many and the souls of many more Well they marched us to Missouri and we hardly stopped for rest Then he made this speech and said, "We're coming to the test" Well we've got to take Saint Louis boys before the Yankees Do If we control the Mississippi then the Federals are through Well they told us that our enemy would all be dressed in blue Well they forgot about the winter's cold and the cursed fever too My brother died at Wilson's Creek and Lord I seen him fall We fell back to the Boston Mountains in the North of Arkansas

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Goddamn you Ben McCulloch

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I hate you more than any other man alive

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And when you die you'll be a foot soldier just like me

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In the Devil's infantry And on the way to Fayetteville we cursed McCulloch's name And mourned the dead that we'd left behind and we was carrying the lame I killed a boy the other night who'd never even shaved I don't even know what I'm fighting for, I ain't never owned a slave So I snuck out of camp and then I heard the news next night The Yankees won the battle and McCulloch lost his life Goddamn you Ben McCulloch I hate you more than any other man alive And when you die you'll be a foot soldier just like me In the Devil's infantry

Steve Earle : Train A-Comin'
1995

Mystery Train Part II

Hometown Blues

Sometimes She Forgets

Mercenary Song

Goodbye

Tom Ames' Prayer

Nothin' Without You

Angel Is The Devil

Ben McCulloch

Steve Earle : Train A-Comin' 1995

Mystery Train Part II

Hometown Blues

Sometimes She Forgets

Mercenary Song

Goodbye

Tom Ames' Prayer

Nothin' Without You

Angel Is The Devil

Ben McCulloch

Steve Earle : Train A-Comin'
1995