Merle Haggard - Oil Tanker Train Chords

Oil Tanker Train


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The oil tanker train from down on the river
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In Southern Pacific and Santa Fe names
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Would rumble and rattle the old boxcar we lived in
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And I was a kid then and I loved that old train


Loaded with crude oil, headed for town
The boxcar would tremble from the top to the ground
And my mother could feel it even before it came
"Get up son to the window, here comes the oil train"


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The memories we felt in that home by the track
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And all these years later it's still stuck in my brain
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Oh I loved that old oil tanker train

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Dad worked for the railroad when I was a kid
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And my fondest memories were things that he did
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And early one Christmas, after Santa Claus came
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There 'neath the tree ran a toy tanker train


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