The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home Chords
The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home by Nashville Bluegrass Band is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords C, C7, F, Am, D, G, G7, F7 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
verse 1:
C C7
Oh, Come along my dear
F C
The time is growing near
Am D G G7
We'll have to walk down where the field is overgrown
C C7
Consumption claimed his life
F C
And we dare not miss the sight
Am G C
Of the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home
verse 2:
C C7
We’ve had some hard times
F C
These past few years
Am D G G7
We lost the farm almost lost our spirits too
C C7
Oh, but it's the strangest thing
F C
When we heard that man sing
Am G C
Oh, we knew somehow we'd make it through
F F7
I can hear that whistle blow
C
That old train is rolling slow
D D7 G G7
Sounds like it's crying for the singing brakeman too
C C7
Back to the sunny south he'll go
F C
And he'll never roam no more
Am G C
Here comes the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home
Instrumental 1X – VERSE CHORDS:
verse 3:
C C7
Come here my little son
F C
And let me hold you up
Am D G G7
I want you to - remember when - you are grown
C C7
How your mama and your dad
F C
Were so proud and so sad
Am G C
Watching the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home
F F7
I can hear that whistle blow
C
That old train is rolling slow
D D7 G G7
Sounds like it's crying for the singing brakeman too
C C7
Back to the sunny south he'll go
F C
And he'll never roam no more
Am G C
Here comes the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home
F F7
C
Am G C
Here comes the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home (YODEL THIS)