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The New Timer

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INTRO:
E ---------------------------|
B ---------------------------|
G ------2-2------------------|
D -2h4-------2h4-2---4p2-0---|
A ---------------------------|
E ---------------------------|
VERSE:
DHe rode the rails since the Great Depression
Fifty years out on the skAids
He said "You don't cross nobody
You'll be all right out here kDid."
VERSE:
DLeft my family in Pennsylvania
Searchin' for work I hit the rAoad
I met Frank in East Texas
In a freight yard blown through with sDnow
VERSE:
DFrom Mexico to Colorado
California to the sAea
Frank he showed me the ropes sir
Just till I could get back on my fDeet
VERSE:
DI hoed sugar beets outside of Firebaugh
I picked the peaches from the Marysville trAees
They bunked us in a barn just like animals
Me and a hundred others just like Dme
E -----------------------------|
B -----------------------------|
G ------2-2--------------------|
D -2h4-------2h4-2---2h4p2-0---|
A -----------------------------|
E -----------------------------|
VERSE:
DWe split up come the springtime
I never seen Frank agAain
'Cept one rainy night he blew by me on a grainer
Shouted my name and disappeared in the rain and wDind
VERSE:
DThey found him shot dead outside of Stockton
His body lyin' on a muddy hAill
Nothin' taken, nothin' stolen
Somebody killin' just to kDill
E -----------------------------|
B -----------------------------|
G ------2-2--------------------|
D -2h4-------2h4-2---2h4p2-0---|
A -----------------------------|
E -----------------------------|
BREAK:
DLate that suAmmer I was rollin' through the plains of TeDxas
A vision paGssed before my eDyes
A small hoAuse sittin' traDckside
With the gAlow of the savior's beautiful lDight
DA woman stood cAookin' in the kitcDhen
Kid sat at a taGble with his old mDan
Now I wAonder does my son mDiss me
Does he wAonder where I aDm
E -----------------------------|
B -----------------------------|
G ------2-2--------------------|
D -2h4-------2h4-2---2h4p2-0---|
A -----------------------------|
E -----------------------------|
VERSE:
DTonight I pick my campsite carefully
Outside the Sacramento yAard
Gather some wood and light a fire
In the early winter dDark
VERSE:
DWind whistling cold I pull my coat around me
Heat some coffee and stare out into the black nAight
I lie awake I lie awake sir
With my machete by my sDide
VERSE:
My Jesus your gracious love and mercy
Tonight I'm sorry could not fAill
My heart Like one good rifle
And the name of who I ought to kDill
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