Morning Train Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays459

Morning Train by Son House is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, Fmaj7, Em and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Am
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Intro:  |Am     |Am     |Fmaj7    |Fmaj7 
        |Am     |Am     |Am   Em  |Am 
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 |Am                            |Am 
I want to go home on the morning train 
|Fmaj7                         |Fmaj7 
 Want to go home on the morning train 
        |Am            |Am 
I say, I wanta go home, wanta go home 
 |Am       Em                 |Am 
I wanta go home on the morning train 
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          |Am                        |Am 
Cause that evening train might be too late 
|Am                        |C 
 Evening train might be too late 
|C             |C 
 Evening train, evening train 
|C                         |Am   |Am 
 Evening train might be too late 
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|Am                   |Am 
 Get my mother, get on board 
              |Fmaj7                 |Fmaj7 
 Why don't you get  my mother, get on board 
|Fmaj7         |Fmaj7 
 Get my mother, sister and brother 
|Fmaj7                     |Am    |Am  
 Get   my mother and get on board 
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          |Am                        |Am 
Cause that evening train might be too late 
|Am                        |C 
 Evening train might be too late 
|C             |C 
 Evening train, evening train 
|C                         |Am 
 Evening train might be too late 
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|Am     |Am     |Am   Em  |Am 
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      |Am                            |Am 
Do you want to go home on the morning train 
|Fmaj7                         |Fmaj7 
 Want to go home on the morning train. 
        |Am            |Am            | 
I say, I wanta go home, wanta go home 
 |Am       Em                 |Am    |Am 
I wanta go home on the morning train 
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Outro: |Am Em | Am              >                    >      > 
                       Strum: 1 2 + + 4 +    OR  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 
                          Heavy Strum on 2 
    	

Chord diagrams

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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