E                         A
Everybody drives the same old roads these days
B                           A        E
Don't see a thing, but they know the way
E                            A
Every mile's a marker, every town's the same
B                         A      E
Another place to stop but not to stay


[Verse 2]
E                           A
Daddy was a brakeman on the L&N
B                          A          E
Sometimes he'd let me ride along with him
E                           A
No matter where we'd stop along the way
B         A        E
Everybody knew his name


[Chorus 1]
C#m                    E
A different story down every line
E      A       E            A        B
People workin' hard just to live and die
C#m                A      E
I saw it all once upon a time
A           B           E
Through the window of a train


[Verse 2]
E                        A
Then we started back the way we came
B                            A       E
Like people moving through a picture frame
E                               A
Seems the whole world's further down the track
B              A       E
But I'm always looking back


[Verse 3]
E                         A
I don't expect you all to understand
B                         A        E
Or see the country like a railroad man
E                          A
So many things you'd never realize
B               A             E
Unless you saw 'em with these eyes


[Chorus 2]
C#m                             A       E
Birmingham to Jackson, hear the whistle call
        A        E           A       B
And the sun goes down like a big red ball
C#m                  A      E
In my memory I still see it all
A            B          E
Through the window of a train