---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: standard The intro and the last two lines of each verse are palm muted. CGFC CCGC CGFC CGCC C G F C Well once I knew a railway girl C G C C Her age was seventeen C G F C I gave her all I had to give C G F F But the baggage of my dreams C G F C Stole me from the games we played C G F F Scorned me for my mast C G F C And if she's gone she lingers on C G C C I beg you please don't ask C G F C T'was on her dark March evening C G C C Southbound I did ride C G F My head was out the window C C G F F When I found her at my side C G F C Asked where I was going to C G F F I told but where I came C G F C For the jails in which I've done my time C G C C I fail hard to regain C G F C Dark girl, dark girl it kills me so C G C C To watch you so afraid C G F C You know that you've been real to those C G F F When realness should be feigned C G F C Her eyes gone wide, "Alive," she cried C G F F Does pleasure ever last? C G F C We live to see, but patiently C G C C I beg you please don't ask D A G D She took me in despite my sins D A D D Fed me tea and such D A G D And as she fell just like a child D A G G I crumbled 'neath her touch D A G D I held my breath in fear to weep D A G G For the fragments of my brain D A G D See each day's but a moment that D A D D I fail hard to regain D A G D But as it goes the people it throws D A D D Our values to the street D A G D Whole world came and saint's gaze D A G G Impatience in his feet D A G D And captives of this paltry trade D A G G We curse our mortal past D A G D Forgive us though we all must go D A D D And where to please don't ask repear chords for last verse without lyrics last verse palm muted C G F C And now I am a misspent man C G C C Who knows not where he's been C G F C And though so sapped with suffering C G F F The worst is yet unseen C G F C Renounce myself for further wealth C G F F I take each breath in vain C G F C Still haunted by that railway girl C G C C I fail hard to regain CGFC CGCC CGFC CGFF CGFC C G F F (palm muted) CGFC CGCC