Doug Burr - Graniteville

Capo III


G
just a boxcar flower used to follow your daddy

Em
another freighter in from Cincinnati

C
you were always watching

..................................G
watching the train roll by

yeah you know baby everything he carried
another red eye: Mobile, Albany
you were always watching
watching the train roll by


G
so tell me what's going on in Graniteville

............D
catch a whole town underneath the sleeping pill

........Am
it's a quiet little city grew up together

...............C
with your picture looking out your grandmother's window

it's a black train running through the middle of the night
finds us here well there's nowhere to hide
if you ever wake up here in Graniteville
ah you know how much I love you and I always will

trying so hard to just get away
some people wanna die in a quiet place
everybody's always watching
watching the trains roll by

yeah if you have a place to go and it's never enough
well hard paying toll and the train's in a rush
that town's always waiting
waiting girl to get back

..............D
yeah but every town's small when it comes to you

......Em
like everyone's asleep when it's passing through

C................................................................G
tonight I heard the screaming of a million tongues

so wake up pretty baby turn the light on
tonight there's something different something gone wrong
we've been sleeping too long
so long

so tell me what's going on in Graniteville
catch a whole town underneath the sleeping pill
it's a quiet little city grew up together
with your picture looking out your grandmother's window

it's a black train running through the middle of the night
finds us here well there's nowhere to hide
if you ever wake up here in Graniteville
ah you know how much I love you and I always will

G
wake up baby

.............D
there's a train a coming

Am
don't you leave me

C
or forsake me

wake up baby
there's a train a coming
don't you know how
much I love you

wake up baby
and hear the screeching
there's a whole town drifting
off to dreaming

wake up baby
there's a train a coming
winter leaving
spring has sprung and

wake up baby
hear the screaming
the whole town dies while
it's still sleeping

wake up baby
there's a train a coming
don't forget you
know I love you