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