THE DEAD MILKMEN
Train I Ride

from Stoney's Extra Stout (Pig)

Tabbed by: Ben Gladdle (moose9377@hotmail.com)


Lyrics:
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Verse:
G           F#
I work on a train
        D                     C#
That's eleven and a half cars long
      G            F#
I can only work at night
          D               C#
Cause the things I do are wrong

verse:
We carry some nasty substances
On this little night train
The first car's full of dioxin
Enough to wipe out the state of Maine

Chorus:
F#          G
Oh the evil terrible things
     B                 A
That I sent down those tracks
  F#                      G
I snuck them through your town at night
B                 A
Right behind your back
B             A
On our little train (x2)

verse:
The second car's just painted black
What's in it nobody knows
Though sometimes it makes a buzzing noise
And once I saw it glow.

verse:
The third car carries poison gas
And the fourth car it does, too
The fifth car's filled to the breaking point
With ortho orange forty-two

chorus:
Oh the evil terrible things
That I sent down those tracks
I snuck them through your town at night
Right behind your back
On our little train (x2)

Alternate Verse:
    G                 D
The sixth car leaks a strange brown ooze
          G                D
On to the hobos who ride below
G               D
It caused their hair to fall out
          E                     B
And their fingers turned bright blue
  E                 B
I swear to god it's true.
    G           D
The seventh car carries raw sewage
        G                D
You can tell just by the scent
   G              D
We used to have a warning sign
              E                     B
But something ate right through the print

verse:
Some sort a' illegal baby food
Is what we got in car number eight
And although I've never tried it myself
The conductor says it's great

verse:
We load the bodies of dead lab animals
On to car number nine
And I swear that sometimes late at night
I can hear those critters whine

(The last chorus and verse are played with the same
 chords as what I've labeled the Alternate Verse. I've
 marked the chords above the words just to make sure.)

G           D
Oh the evil terrible things
     G                 D
That I sent down those tracks
  G                       D
I snuck them through your town at night
E                 B
Right behind your back
E             B
On our little train

G                D
Both cars number ten and eleven
G             D
Carry tainted juice
    G             D
And I can hear it sloshing around
        E              B
From my chair in the caboose.

End on B.


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