AMELIA’S RAILROAD FLAT Tom Russell Capo 2 Intro: (D)/ AMELIA, SHE WORKED FOR THE (G) railroad (A) Doin’ what I never (D) knew But I’d meet her down at the Em) depot (A) Every day at half past (D) two And we climbed the (D7) old wood (G) stairway (A) Find the key below the (D) mat Watch the sunset on the (Em) freight yard (A) Up at Amelia’s railroad (D) flat //// //// / RUSSIAN VODKA IN THE (G) freezer (A) From the Polish liquor (D) store Spanish rice, Moroccan (Em) oranges (A) Persian rugs upon the (D) floor And Amelia (D7) came from (G) Denmark (A) She bought a pair of Siamese (D) cats They’d wake us up there in the (Em) morning (A) At Amelia’s railroad (D) flat //// //// //// //// And every (Bm) night the midnight ghost rode out on (G) time (Bm) Rolling down the line at 12 (G) 09 And we’d (Bm) sit and count the cars out on the (G) track As they (D) shook the bedroom window of Amelia’s railroad (A) flat //// //// / (A) /// // (G) //// //// (A) //// //// (D) //// //// //// //// (Em) //// //// (A) //// //// (D) //// //// / BUT THE FREIGHT YARDS, THEY ARE (G) gone now (A) And the buildings block the (D) sun And Amelia sailed for (Em) Demark (A) Way back in 198-(D)-1 But every time I (D7) hear a (G) freight train (A) Or watch the sun set on the (D) tracks Lord I recall those summer (Em) evenin’s (A) Up at Amelia’s railroad (D) flat And every time I (D7) hear a (G) freight train (A) Blowin’ lonely down the (D) track I hear those bedroom windows (Em) rattle (A) Up at Amelia’s railroad (D) flat Lord how those bedroom windows (Em) rattled (A) Up at Amelia’s railroad (D) flat //// //// //// ///