RAILROAD MAN
by EELS
on album "blinking lights and other revelations"
tabbed by ludwig jossieaux (ludwigmk@masiaka.net)
if you want to play at the same pitch as the version on the album,
you have to play the following chords shapes with a capo at the
fifth fret.
EADGBe
C [ 032010 ]
C/B [ 020010 ]
F [ 033210 ]
Am [ 002210 ]
G [ 320003 ]
Fmaj7 [ 003210 ]
C C/B
F Am G (2x)
C C/B
feel like an old railroad man
F Am G
ridin' out on the bluemont line
C C/B
hummin' along old dominion blues
F Am G
not much to see and not much left to lose
Fmaj7 C
and i know i can walk along the tracks
Am Fmaj7
it may take a little longer but i'll know
G C C/B F Am G
how to find my way back
C C/B
i feel like an old railroad man
F Am G
who's really tried the best that he can
C C/B
to make his life add up to something good
F Am G
but this engine no longer burns on wood
Fmaj7 C
and i guess i may never understand
Am
the times that i live in
Fmaj7 G C C/B F Am G
are not made for a railroad man
C C/B
F Am G
C C/B
i feel like an old railroad man
F Am G
getting on board at the end of an age
C C/B
the station's empty and the whistle blows
F
things are faster now
Am G
and this train is just too slow
Fmaj7 C
and i know i can walk along the tracks
Am Fmaj7
it may take a little longer but i'll know
G C C/B F Am G
how to find my way back
C C/B
F Am G (10x)
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Jordan Wanna Be |
#1 by Jordan Ivory-Marcotte at Sep 26, 2007 at 2:04 PM EST |
| Amazing! I had forgotten about the Eels... I heard the band perform this on Jay Leno and was blown away!!! It's like an ageless classic tune, just perfect songwriting. It really is a masterpiece... I guess this tune is nothing like them because I ran out and got the album, hoping to hear more songs like it. It's taking me awhile to get into the rest of it because the majority of it is very experimental and emo-like, unlike this tune which is just so pure and wonderful without all the bells and whistles. Normally, I love the bells and whistles, but I'm just shocked. I've read nothing but GREAT things though, about the new album... so maybe I just need to let go and allow the music to fill me?? I know Tom Waits - one of my all-time favorite songwriters - shows up on it, so if he likes it, it has to be good! haha | |
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Tim Rhythm Player |
#2 by Tim Jessop at Sep 26, 2007 at 6:35 PM EST |
| I´m getting it as a statement for being overrun by modern age, and on not being able to adapt into chancing of time."The times that I live in are not made for a --------" | |
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Jarrett Lead Player |
#3 by Jarrett Sandlin at Sep 27, 2007 at 5:39 PM EST |
| love this song so much! "To make his life add up to something good But this engine no longer burns on wood" best line by far | |
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Kevin Wanna Be |
#4 by Kevin Woolard at Sep 30, 2007 at 8:15 AM EST |
| This one reminds me of my old man, who, certainly enough, happens to be a retired railroad man. 1 | |
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lee michael Wanna Be |
#5 by lee michael turner II at Oct 2, 2007 at 4:49 AM EST |
| great lyrics and impossible to not see the point for anyone who would read them. However, because things look dark, bleak and unfair, doesn't leave us with out life to live. So choices must be made and being dismal only makes this generation fullfill its perceived destiny. Any man with dignity needs to make a challenge of it all. In a sense we live in an age pure freedom, driving a car into closed gate into darkness. We could stop and wither or see how fast and hard we can smash through and with smiles wait to see what happens. Laughing all the way! why worry? why despair? Nothing to lose means nothing to lose. | |
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mikey Average |
#6 by mikey firkins at Oct 3, 2007 at 8:11 PM EST |
| This is the best song of 2005 so far. Incredible. | |
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BOOKER Average |
#7 by BOOKER at Oct 4, 2007 at 8:52 AM EST |
| It's about the nostalgia for the past and simpler times when hard work and integrity were things by which to live. | |
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