Casey Jones
Grateful Dead from the album Workingman's dead
STANDARD TUNING
RIFF1
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[RIFF1]
[CHORUS]
C F
Driving that train, high on cocaine,
F C
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
C F
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
F C
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
[RIFF1]
[VERSE]
C D
This old engine makes it on time,
F G
Leaves central station ’bout a quarter to nine,
C D
Hits river junction at seventeen to,
F E7 Am G
At a quarter to ten you know it’s travlin’ again.
[CHORUS]
C F
Driving that train, high on cocaine,
F C
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
C F
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
F C
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
[RIFF1]
[VERSE]
C D
Trouble ahead, lady in red,
F G
Take my advice you’d be better off dead.
C D
Switchman’s sleeping, train hundred and two is
F E7 Am G
On the wrong track and headed for you.
[CHORUS]
C F
Driving that train, high on cocaine,
F C
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
C F
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
F C
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
[RIFF1]
[LEAD]
[RIFF1]
[VERSE]
C D
Trouble with you is the trouble with me,
F G
Got two good eyes but you still don’t see.
C D
Come round the bend, you know it’s the end,
F E7 Am G
The fireman screams and the engine just gleams...
C F
Driving that train, high on cocaine,
F C
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
C F
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
F C
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
C F
Driving that train, high on cocaine,
F C
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
C F
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
F C
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
C F
Driving that train, high on cocaine,
F C
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
C F
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
F C
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
F E7 Am C
And you know that notion just cross my mind