Bonus Track Chords

KeyC Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays441

Bonus Track by Rick Moranis is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords C, G, Em, D and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro 
C  G  C  G  C  G  Em  D  G 

Verse 
         G             Em         G 
Well I'm movin' along, singin' my song 
      G                            D 
About coal smoke and valve oil and steam 
C                        G 
Daybreak Express and the Rock Island Line 
C                      G 
Tennessee Central, the Ol' Number 9 
C                       G             Em 
Full throttle boxcar, a steel-drivin' man 
D                             G 
Midnight and I'm doin' what I can 

    G                           Em        G 
I'm holdin' back tears, I'm one brave engineer 
G                        D 
Lonesome and lost and in love 
C                 G 
Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe 
C                      G 
Glendale, Poor Valley, mystery train 
C                       G           Em 
Cold Mountain, Sligo, a tie-walkin' man 
D                             G 
Midnight and I'm doin' what I can 

Chorus 
          Bm                    Em 
But these trains always take me away from you 
    Bm                     Em 
And right away I wanna get back 
       Bm                          Em 
So I'm leavin' here tonight on the next one that comes 
    D                   G 
I'm ridin' on the bonus track 

  G                        Em                G 
I shudder to think I might find that missin' link 
     G                          D 
That keeps me this tight to the rail 
C                           G 
Nickel Plate Road, it's the 7-5-9 
C                       G 
Toe River, Memphis, the end of the line 
C                         G          Em 
Freedom and friendship, a brakeman's man 
D                          G 
Midnight, I'm doin' what I can 

Chorus 
      Bm                      Em 
These trains, they take me to places unknown 
  Bm                     Em 
A hobo with dreams in my sack 
  Bm                    Em 
A parallel world that's all my own 
    D                   G 
I'm ridin' on the bonus track 

Outro 
C  G   C  G  C  G  Em  D  G 
C  G   C  G  C  G  Em  D  G 
D  G   G  G  D  G 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante