We Rode On The Reading
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"We Rode on the Reading" - Charles J. Adams III
Track 3 of 18 on the album "Tracks" (2008)
[!] Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbBNMvGcEho [!]
[Intro]
E B7 E
[Chorus]
E A E
We rode on the Reading when the Reading rode again
F#7 B7
We look back through the years to the days of way back when
E A Am
We rode the mighty rails across the fields and 'round the bend
E B7 E
We rode on the Reading when the Reading rode again
[Verse 1]
E A E
They tell me that the age of steam is dead and gone away
F#7 B7
They say I'm living in the past but I don't hear what they say
E A Am
The chug-chug-chug and the toot-toot-toot seem like an old, old friend
E B7 E
We rode on the Reading when the Reading rode again
[Bridge 1]
C#m
With a chug-chug-chug and a toot-toot-toot
A E
We'll head from Reading town
C#m
We'll ride the rails to Pottsville
F#7 B7
And then we'll turn around
[Verse 2]
E A E
From the coal mines and the factories, from the mountains to the sea
F#7 B7
The Reading lines extended in the 19th century
E A Am
We'll not forget the stories of steel rails and iron men
E B7 E
We rode on the Reading when the Reading rode again
[Bridge 2]
C#m
The cars and the cabooses
A E
Are with us still today
C#m
So stoke that locomotive
F#7 B7
And listen as we say
[Chorus]
E A E
We rode on the Reading when the Reading rode again
F#7 B7
We look back through the years to the days of way back when
E A Am
We rode the mighty rails across the fields and 'round the bend
E B7 E
We rode on the Reading when the Reading rode again
[Interlude]
E A E
F#7 B7
E A Am
E B7 E
[Verse 3]
E A E
You can take your cars and buses, you can have your SST
F#7 B7
The only way to fly, my friends, is on rails of history
E A Am
If they said, "You can go to the moon," I'll say, "I'll take the train"
E B7 E
'cause I rode on the Reading when the Reading rode again
[Verse 4]
E A E
I've ridden on a horse's back and I've sailed the seven seas
F#7 B7
And both, I must admit, provided wondrous memories
E A Am
But gosh, I just got seasick and that horse gave me a pain
E B7 E
'cause I rode on the Reading when the Reading rode again
[Bridge 3]
C#m
The Outer Station, Franklin Street
A E
And the shops at Sixth and Spring
C#m
The clackety-clack and the "all aboard!"
F#7 B7
It is of those I sing
[Chorus 2]
E A E
I rode on the Reading when the Reading rode again
F#7 B7
I got a cinder in my eye but this I'll say, my friend
E A Am
Her memory, I'll treasure, and her glory, I'll defend
E B7 E
'cause I rode on the Reading when the Reading rode again
B7 E
We rode on the Reading when the Reading rode again
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