The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home
by Greg Brown from: If I had known Essential recordings 1980-1996
[Verse 1]
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Come along my dear the time is growing near
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I want you to walk down to where the field is over grown
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Consumption's claimed his life and we dare not miss the sight
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Of the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home
[Verse 2]
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We've had some hard times these last few years
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Lost our farm - almost lost our spirits, too
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But it's the strangest thing when we hear that brakeman sing
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we knew that some how we'd made it through.
[Chorus]
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I can hear that whistle blow
G
That old train is rollin' slow
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Sounds like its crying for the singing brakeman too
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Down to the sunny south he'll go and he'll never roam no more
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Here comes the train oh hold me close oh sweetheart, do
[Verse 3]
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Come my little son and let me hold you up
Em A7 D D7
I want you to remember this day when you are grown
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How your mama and your dad were so proud and so sad
Em D D7 G
Watching the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home
Em D D7 G
There goes the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home
[Outro]
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(Yodel away here...)