Waiting For A Train Chords
by Hugh Laurie
Waiting For A Train by Hugh Laurie is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G7, C7, F, Fm, Am, D7 and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C G7 C C7 F Fm C
All around the water tank waiting for a train
F C Am D7 G7
A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain
C G7 C C7 F Fm C
I walked up to a brakeman just to give him a line of talk
F C D7 G7
He said if you've got money I'll see that you don't walk
C G7 C C7 F E7
Well I haven't got a nickel not a penny can I show
F C D7 G7 C
He said get off you railroad bum and he slammed the boxcar door
G7 C G7 C C7 F Fm C
Well he put me off in Texas a place I dearly love
F C D7 G7
The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars above
C G7 C C7 F Fm C
Nobody seems to want me nor to lend me a helping hand
F C D7 G7
I'm on my way from Frisco heading back to Dixie Land
C G7 C C7 F E7
My pocketbook is empty my heart is willed with pain
F C D7 G7 C
I'm a thousand miles away from home just waiting for a train