Tablature fear of trains - The Magnetic Fields

          



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  Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:36:24 -0500

  From: "Mr. Coin Operated" <krandell@nmu.edu>

  To: guitar@olga.net

  Subject: tab: 'fear of trains' by 'magnetic fields, the'

  

  From: Kent Randell <krandell@nmu.edu>

  

  my band Leslie Can't Love plays this so I figured why not transcribe it.

  Chords with words are first.  Some riffs are tabbed at the bottom.

  

  Fear of Trains by the Magnetic Fields.  'Charm of the Highway Strip'

  

  

  into: G  F   C

  VERSE 1:

             G               F              C

  It was the army train that took her daddy from her

  

             G                F              C

  It was the bible train that took her momma too

  

           Am                         Dm    C   G  

  And that high loud whistle made her horse run away

  

          G                   F                C  

  But the straw the broke the camel's back was you

  

  

             G                     F             C  

  It was the government train that took away her childhood  

  

             G        F             C

  It was the KKK that took away her past  

  

             Am                    Dm      C   G

  It was the white man's will that hers be broken

  

           G                   F             C  

  But that barefoot girl could run too fast  

  

  

  CHORUS:

  C                                             Am

  Because the world's too cold  for a girl like that with a 

  

  C                            G 

  Blackfoot soul  and a cowboy hat

  

       C                                    Am  

  Everything she loved went down the dragon track

  

                    C        G    F   C  

  She had a fear of trains  

  

  

  BRIDGE:

  C                         G  

  In the beet fields of Montana 

  

  Dm                          Am

  She's always coming on dead rails  

  

  C                             G

  to break the plow and whisper "Honey,  

  

  Dm                        Am

  bound to live is bound to fail" 

  

  C                        G

  And in a park in San Francisco  

  

  Dm                          Am

  her momma shrieks about the Lord  

  

  C                                  G

  And down the dead rails there's an echo  

  

  Dm                        Am

  The wind is whistling all-aboard  

  

  CHORUS 

  

  VERSE2:  (same chords as before)

  It was the wagon train that too away her country  

  It was the oil train that took away her land  

  She could have been the belle of the ponderosa 

  but that was not the fat man's plan 

  

  CHORUS

  

  

  Guitar riff during verses and intro:

  E-------------------1--0-----------------------------------------

  B-------1--0---1-------------------------------------------------

  G------------------------------0^2^0------------0^2^0------------

  D-------------------------------------0^2--------------0^2-------

  A--------------------------3-----------------3--------------3----

  E---3----------1-------------------------------------------------

  

  Guitar riff at the end of the Chorus:

  E-------1^0-------------------------1^0--------------------------

  B------------3^1--------------------------3^1--------------------

  G------------------2--2---0---------------------0----------------

  D------------------------------3----------------2----------------

  A---3-------------------------------------------3----------------

  E------------------3-----------1---------------------------------

  

  Guitar/keyboard riff during the bridge:

  E-------3-----------3-------------1-----------0------------------

  B--1-----------0-------------------------------------------------

  G----------------------------2-------------2---------------------

  D----------------------------0-----------------------------------

  A--3---------------------------------------0---------------------

  E--------------3-------------------------------------------------

   


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 Fear of trains, de The magnetic fields 

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