Transcribed by Gareth Owen from the album "Sold American"

SILVER EAGLE EXPRESS - Kinky Friedman

Chorus:
        G                            Am
And I'd ride the silver eagle to the last town on the line
D                                                    G
Railroad ties are not, my friend, the only ties that bind
G                                   Am
Just watch the troubled countryside gently fall away
D                                                     G
Silver eagle hold me, guide me, roll me homeward from today

D                                 C
Lose the track of time and let it flow back,
D                              C
Stoke the ancient furnace into flames
D                                      C
Running barefoot in the cinders of the mole pack
D                              C            D
Hopping bedtime rides with the outlaw Jesse James.

D                                  C
But now my hearts a worn and weary vessel
     D                                 C
Been hauling dreams that never seem to last
D                               C
Once I slept beside a trembling trestle
D                             C                D
Woke up lost across the rusty lifelines to the past

[Rpt. Chorus]

D                        C
Freedoms only station to station
  D                              C
A paper suitcase on the track of time
D                                  C
Ain't hard to tell a hard luck situation
D                                     C           D
Ain't hard to tell a homeless country poet out of rhyme

[Chorus] 
I'm gonna ride the silver eagle to the last town on the line
Theres nothing to remember if there's nothing to remind
From the gentle Texas sunshine to the Colorado snow
Ain't no-one here to hold you boy, when the good Lord lets you go

-- 
Gareth Owen
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