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Train To Birmingham Tab

by Kevin Welch


Harry Stinson   drums/vocals
Mike Henderson  guitar/slide guitar
Biff Watson     keyboards
Glen Worf       bass
Kieran Kane     mandolin/vocals



                        
I've been riding on this train 
                      
Drinking whiskey for the pain just
                            
Another good ol' boy headed home 
                
And every town I see 
                     
Seems to take a part of me 
                                       
That's the price that you pay when you roam 
               
Well I cry when I have to 
               
And I lie when I can 
                  
But I die a little slower 
                     
On the train to Birmingham 
                       
I got holes in both my shoes 
                       
Got  a guitar full of blues 
                           
And a one way ticket for my remedy 
                          
It's the same ol' lonesome song 
                          
I've been singing all night long 
                             
Hey, porter, are we out of Tennessee 
               
Well I cry when I have to 
               
And I lie when I can 
                  
But I die a little slower 
                     
On the train to Birmingham 

SOLO

                           
Well every year I take this train 
               
To Alabama in the rain 
                                     
When I get that lonesome feelin' in my bones 
                     
I never get to Birmingham 
                          
But gettin' there ain't the plan 
                                                  
I just like the feel of going home 
               
Well I cry when I have to 
               
And I lie when I can 
                  
But I die a little slower 
                     
On the train to Birmingham 
                     
On the train to Birmingham 



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From Kevin Welch "Western Beat"
Reprise Records 1992
Tree Publishing Co. Inc(BMI)