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Lyr Req: Some Go Home (The Train Song) (JJ Walker)

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Subject: Lyric - Jerry Jeff Walker
From: GUEST,GB
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 01:54 AM

Hi!

I'm looking for the lyrics to a song Jerry Jeff Walker performed in the late 60's and, I believe, wrote. I don't know the title, but it started, as I remember, "A soldier rides on a train to Tennessee, and half–asleep he dreams what isn't a dream; with each step of the wheels on steel another face goes by, with each face that he loves he turns and sighs; and he's headed home, he's headed home; back to where it all began, back to find his life again."

I've never been able to find a recording of it. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.


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Subject: RE: Lyric - Jerry Jeff Walker
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 02:15 AM

Name of it is "Some Go Home...(The Train Song)"

Lyrics and chords HERE

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Lyric - Jerry Jeff Walker
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 03:23 AM

Thanks Spaw. That's a big help. Have a great holiday season!

GB


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Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: SOME GO HOME (THE TRAIN SONG)
From: Genie
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 04:19 AM

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


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