Biography:
Fred Eaglesmith (born as Frederick Elgersma on July 9, 1957 in Caistor Centre, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. Some of his albums have been credited to Fred J. Eaglesmith. Eaglesmith was one of nine children of an immigrant family from the Dutch province Friesland and raised in rural Southern Ontario. As a teenager, he hopped a freight train out to Western Canada, and began writing songs and performing. He is known for writing songs about machines or vehicles
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Other songs:
- 105
- 18 Wheels
- 49 Tons
- Alcohol And Pills
- Bench Seat Baby
- Betty Oshawa
- Big Ass Garage Sale
- Careless
- Carmelita
- Caroline
- Cemetery Road
- Cigarette Machine
- Crashin And Burnin
- Cumberland County
- Dangerous
- Down The Line
- Drinking To Much
- Drinking Too Much
- Freight Train
- Hes A Good Dog
- Hows Ernie
- I Aint Ever Givin In
- I Like Trains
- I Shot Your Dog
- Indian Motorcycles
- Indiana Road
- Jericho
- Kansas
- Katie
- Last 6 Dollars
- Little Buffalo Rock
- Mighty Big Car
- Ninety
- Pretty Good Guy
- Rebecca Street
- Seven Shells
- Small Motors
- Small Town
- Spookin The Horses
- Stars
- Steel Guitar
- Summerlea
- Sunflowers
- The Rocket
- Thirty Years Of Farming
- Time To Get A Gun
- Toggle Switch
- Trucker Speed
- White Ash And Black Ash
- White Rose
- White Trash
- Your Sister Cried
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[Intro]
D Am C G D
[Verse 1]
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."
[Verse 2]
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.
[Chorus]
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.
[Verse 3]
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
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 fields, 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.
[Solo]
D Am C G D
D Am C G D
[Verse 4]
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]
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 fields, 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.
[Outro]
D Am C G D
D Am C G D
D Am C G D
[Verse 1]
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."
[Verse 2]
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.
[Chorus]
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.
[Verse 3]
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
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 fields, 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.
[Solo]
D Am C G D
D Am C G D
[Verse 4]
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]
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 fields, 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.
[Outro]
D Am C G D
D Am C G D
Fred Pellerin
Fred Penner
Fred Rai
Fred Schneider
Fred Shafer
Freddie Hart
Freddie King
Freddie McGregor
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Perren