STEAM TRAIN
(Words & Music by Adam Mackintosh)
(the changes are not placed on the beat as the software will not allow it)


  G          B7           Em           A           

California, get me high, New York City wouldn’t pay me no mind,

A7            D7           G

I cross the country sixteen times a year.

          G              B7          Em          A           

Ogalala, oh my my, there was gold in the hills but the valley was dry,

A7           D7           G

rain was fallin’ like an endless trail of tears.


          G          B7           Em, Eb, D

CHORUS: Feelin like a steam train dead on track,

C# min7b5      A      D7                G           

I’m lookin’ back on a long black steam train.

G          B7           Em          A           

Sweet Virginia, wave bye-bye, there’s fruit in the fields and there's pie in the sky;

A7           D7           G

the milk and honey have always been right here.

G           B7            Em               A

From Castle Rock to Wichita from a mountain top in Arkansas,

A7            D7           G

I could always hear you loud and clear.

(CHORUS)
(solo passage over verse)

G         B7          Em           A         

So, California, get me high, New York City wouldn’t pay me no mind,

A7           D7          G

I cross the country sixteen times a year . . . .

(CHORUS)


SISTER MAGGIE, BROTHER SAM (Written For Eric McFadden)
Lyric Only but if you worked with Emin, A min, B7 D Ebhalf-dim and Gmaj you would probably have it. Good luck with the leads. :)
(I've been getting a lot of requests for these lyrics from Paris as Eric is getting rather famous in France.)

Maggie said she'd met the devil
I said no such thing as evil
no, she said, you never met my brother

I found her outside New Orleans
up from the bottom of a bottle of green
and I drank her like the thirst of the undead

Maggie, oh dear Maggie
your brother Sam will never bare the likes of me
Maggie, darling Maggie.



He'd never understand that I'm an evil seed



She said we'd never go to stay
and once her brother learned my name
he'd take her back from where she came from then
She smiled at me like no one since I swore but I could not convince her

we would be together till the end

Maggie, oh dear Maggie
your brother Sam will never bare the likes of me
Maggie, darling Maggie.
He'd never understand that I'm an evil seed

La la la la la la la, la la la la la la la
Laughing like the moon above her head
La la la...
Crying in her Briar Flower Bed


Sam caught up about the seventh day
a slender man of wealth and taste
His hand was hot unto the shake
and I had thought to run....

The clouds broke and I saw the sun and Maggie knew I was the one
And brother Sam did put my hand in hers

He said that sin were half a heart and Maggie's was the other part
And I'll be damned if the sky weren't burnt and red

La la la...
Laughing Like the moon above her head
La la la...
Crying in her Briar Flower Bed