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