Intro:

Am        G        C  x2

 

C    G/B            D/F#

I’m gonna rob a freight train

 

Am      G                C

When it comes round the bend

 

Am    G        D/F#

Time to put my boots on

 

E                G

Get to work again

 

C    G/B            D/F#

I’ll saddle up old Blondie

 

Am    G            C

And we’ll ride outta town

 

Am    G            D/F#

She’s handsome, fast and strong

 

E                    G

Fastest horse around

 

C    G/B            D/F#

She loves to raise the dust up

 

Am    G            C

And race me on my way

 

Am    G            D/F#

It’s just like in the movies

 

E                    G

What more can I say

 

C    G/B        F

Oh  Oh     Angeline

 

C/E                G

Left Carolina for Abilene

 

C    G/B        F

Oh  Oh     Angeline

 

C/E                D/F#

Left Carolina for Abilene

 

C    G/B            D/F#

It was New Year’s Eve 1910

 

Am    G            C

We were feeling good

 

Am    G            D/F#

From my cloud of powder

 

E                    G

Guess they understood

 

C    G/B            D/F#

You took a seat, I tipped my hat

 

Am    G            C

Was a barker on the box

 

Am    G            D/F#

We tried to tell them bankers

 

E                    G

You can’t out sly a fox

 

C    G/B            D/F#

Remember Elly del Sarto

 

Am    G            C

or how the story goes

 

Am    G            D/F#

I left them by the tracks

 

E                    G

We reap what we sow

 

C    G/B        F

Oh  Oh     Angeline

 

C/E                G

Left Carolina for Abilene

 

C    G/B        F

Oh  Oh     Angeline

 

C/E                D/F#

Left Carolina for Abilene