Some Go Home (The Train Song)
(Jerry Jeff Walker)

D
Soldier rides on the train to Tennessee
D
And half asleep he dreams what isn't a dream.
C                  G                 D
Each click of the wheels on steel a face goes by;
C              G                    D
With each face he loves, he turns and sighs,

          C   G  Am7
And he's headed home, yes, yes,
     C   G   Am4                           D
He's headed home, trying to find his life again,
C          G               D
   And he wonders what's become of them.
 

Three rows back, a young woman looks out the train.
Her eyes reveal that her life is desperately plain.
She's a woman who's seen this world and not touched one man;
She knows she could if she would, but she can't.
 

And she's headed home, yeah,
Headed home, back where life begins and ends,
And you feel that you belong to them.

Em                A                  D
The train keeps moving on down the line,
Em                 A               D
Leaving people at every depot behind.
      Em             A                  Em                       A
You wanna begin somewhere, but you'll always take a chance out there,
                         C  G  A
So you go on down the line.
 

I sit half drunk in the dining car and I observe life.
Got him pegged, and I'm pretty sure I got her right.
When you've been as far as I have you just know these things;
That's the reason that I sat and drank the drinks,

'Cause I got no home, no, no,
I need no one, nothing to bring pain again;
It's great just living on the wind.

But the woman is met by her husband there at the station,
And two stops later the soldier's girl is still waiting,
And I simply accept the fact they're just lucky, that's all;
In fact I don't believe they pulled it off.

And I can't go on, no, no,
I can't go on, making everything I see
Fit the way life was for me.

That train keeps moving on down the line
Leaving people at every depot behind,
And I want to begin somewhere,

But for me it's never free out there,
So I'll go down the line, down the line,
Down the line, go on down the line.

Go on down the line, down the line, down the line.

Tabbed by Bob Roddis