Phoebe Snow chords
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Phoebe Snow
Starlight On the Rails
November 15, 2008
Banjo tuned E Capo 1, Key D
D G D
I saw her name, on the side of a train
A7
Somewhere a long time ago
D
I don't know who she was
G D A7 D
But I gave my name to someone called Phoebe Snow
G D
Like a bird on the wing, I hear voice sing,
A7
As over the prairies I roll
G
But I'd give my life to spend one more night
D A7 D
In the arms of my own Phoebe Snow
G D
I climbed on board through a wide open door
A7
Just as she started to roll,
D G D
And I rode so light through the long summer night
A7 D
In the arms of my own Phoebe Snow.
(chorus)
(spoken)
Many a night I've sat by the fire
In a circle of stone silent men,
And heard the sagebrush whistle and pop
And the coffee boil in the can.
D G D
The bottoms were filled with a cool river wind
A7
And the treetops chasing the moon
D G D
And I knew without saying to take my guitar
A7 D
And play up some slow gentle tune.
G D
I played up a face I knew long ago
A7
And the song was the sound of a name,
D G D
I knew without looking that every man there
A7 D
Was each of them doing the same.
G D
Then I played up some hands so pale and small
A7
With a touch as light as the rain,
D G D
And I knew without looking that every man there
A7 D
Was each of 'em feeling the same.
Then I played up the booze and the holes in the shoes
Of a man whose life is a cage,
And all the things done to make a man run,
The hard luck and failures of age -
Then I stopped with a crash - we looked into the ash,
Helpless with longing and rage.
Now a traveling life might seem all right,
A life without worry or care;
Always up and always out and always going somewhere,
But I'll tell you, friend-it's not where you are
But your reason for being there.
(sung)D G D
And then I awoke as the day broke,
A7
And gazed out over the plain,
D G D
Thinking as how I'm better off now
A7 D
Being in love with a train.
(chorus)