Graniteville
by Doug Burr (
C - G - Dm - F
C
Just a boxcar flower used to follow your daddy
Am
another fader-in from Cincinatti
F C
You were always watching, watching the trains roll by
C
Yeah, you know I love you, everything you carry
Am
Another redeye, Mobile, Albany
F C
You were always watching, watching the train roll by
C
So, tell me, what's going on in Graniteville
G
Catch a whole town underneath a sleeping pill
Dm
It's a quiet little city that grew up together
F
with your picture looking out your grandmother's window
C
There's a black train rolling through the middle of the night
G
Finds us here, well there's nowhere to hide
Dm
If we ever wake up in Graniteville
F
Oh, you know how much I love you and I always will
C - G - Dm - F
C
Trying so hard just to get away
Am
some people want to die in a quiet place
F C
where everybody's always watching, watching the trains roll by
C
Yeah, you have a place to go when it's never enough
Am
Little hard to pay the toll, train's in a rush
F C
out of town, it's always leaving, waving the girl goodbye, goodbye
G
Yeah, but every town is small when it comes to you
Am
Just like everyone's asleep when it's passing through
F C
All night I heard the scream of a million tongues
C (held)
So wake up, pretty baby, turn the light on
Am (held)
tonight there's something different, something gone wrong
F C
We've been sleeping too long, so long
C
So, tell me, what's going on in Graniteville
G
Catch a whole town underneath a sleeping pill
Dm
It's a quiet little city that grew up together
F
with your picture looking out your grandmother's window
C
There's a black train rolling through the middle of the night
G
Finds us here, well there's nowhere to hide
Dm
If we ever wake up in Graniteville
F
Oh, you know how much I love you and I always will
C - G - Dm - F
C G
Wake up, baby, there's a train a'comin'
Dm F
Don't you leave me or forsake me
C G
Wake up, baby, there's a train a'comin'
Dm F
Don't you know how much I love you?
C G
Wake up, baby, and hear the screeching
Dm F
whole town drifting off to dreamin'
C G
Wake up, baby, there's a train a'comin'
Dm F
Winter's leaving, Spring has sprung in
C G
Wake up, baby, hear the screaming
Dm F
Whole town dies while it's still sleeping
C G (ritard)
Wake up, baby, there's a train a'comin'
Dm F F (held)
Don't forget, you know I love you.