The Coalburner

F5 It burns coal F5 Running through my heart F5 I’m so bleeding old F5 C Run out of smoke and spark F5 It burns fire A# A#m A dirty soot that fire F5 C F5 Won’t you take a ride of that train running through my heart 1st Verse F5 I wanted to rip the tracks in the back-stretch not so long ago F5 I was hauling for the king man, freighin’ for my ex-wife, C carrying a heavy load F5 Yeah everything was uphill next got a standstill A# Around the bend and gone F5 Until I came upon a straight rail smooth grade C F5 Knew I shoulda track like you F5 It burns coal F5 Running through my heart F5 I’m so bleeding old F5 C Run out of smoke and spark F5 It burns fire A# A#m A dirty soot that fire F5 C F5 Won’t you take a ride of that train running through my heart 2nd Verse F5 Well now who we been hungry F5 Who we been thirsty F5 Pulling that heavy load F5 C Through the dens of thieves over the C bones of beasts at 39 mill train road F5 Yeah done that shit and just about quit F5 A# Before the light at the end of the line F5 Blowin’ smoke burnin’ coal C F5 Bringing in the mail on time F5 C F5 A# F5 C F5 3rd Verse F5 She got high cotton hard rockin’ mine shaftin’ F5 Sweet blacktop headed west F5 Rolling with the cheap corn boutonniere a mile long F5 C Stuck outside the ford express F5 She got no more turn back than you and I can jump tracks F5 A# So we just got to row row row F5 Forget the cars that drove her and the jets that fly over C F5 It’s a train gonna bring her home F5 It burns coal F5 Running through my heart F5 I’m so bleeding old F5 C Run out of smoke and spark F5 It burns fire A# A#m A dirty soot that fire F5 C F5 Won’t you take a ride of that train running through my heart F5 C F5 Won’t you take a ride of that train running through my heart