Tom: E
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
