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The Last Ride lyrics and chords

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The Last Ride lyrics and chords are intended for your personal use only, it's really a nice song recorded by Hank Snow. This old country song is easy to learn to play and sing, plus it's fun to do.

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The Last Ride
Recorded by Hank Snow 
Written by
Ted Daffan and Robert Halcomb

C                                       
In the Dodge City yards of the Sante Fe
                                G7    
Stood a freight made up for the east

And the engineer with his oil and waste
                            C     
Was grooming the great iron beast


While ten cars back in the murky dust
     C7             F    
A boxcar door swung wide
      G7                          
And a hobo lifted his pal aboard
                          C    
To start on his last long ride

  F                                        
A lantern swung and the freight pulled out
                       C     
The engine it gathered speed
    F                                 
The engineer pulled the throttle wide
    D7                   G7     
And clucked to his fiery steed

C                              
Ten cars back in the empty box
                  G7    
The hobo rolled a pill

The flare of the match showed his partners face
                        C     
Stark white and deathly still


As the train wheels clicked on the coupling joints
  C7                    F    
A song for the ramblers ears
    G7                                   
The hobo talked to the still white form
                   C    
His pal for many a year

Spoken:
C                                         
For a mighty long time we've rambled Jack
                          F    
With the luck of men that roam
     G7                                     
With the back door steps for a dining room
                     C    
And the boxcar for a home


We dodged the bulls on the eastern route
                    F
And the cops on the Chesapeake
   G7
We traveled the Leadville Narrow Gauge
                       C
In the days of Cripple Creek
 

We drifted down through sunny Cal
                    F
On the rails of the old S P
    G7
And of all you had through good and bad
                          C
A half always belonged to me
 

You made me promise to you Jack
                   F  
If I lived and you cashed in
   G7
To take you back to the old churchyard
                             C
And bury you there with your kin


You seemed to know I would keep my word
                    F
For you said that I was wise
     G7
Well I'm keeping my promise to you pal
                          C    
Cause I'm taking you home tonight


I hadn't the money to send you there
                          F
So I'm taking you back on the fly
     G7
It's the decent way for a Bo to go
                   C 
Home to the by and by            


I knew that fever had you Jack
                     F      
And that doctor just wouldn't come
   G7
He was too busy treating the wealthy folks
                     C
To doctor a worn out bum         

Sung:
C                                             
As the train rolled over its ribbon of steel
                                G7    
Straight through to the east it sped

The engineer in his high cab seat
                             C    
Keep his eyes on the rails a head


While ten cars back in the empty box
        C7      F      
The lonely hobo sighed
        G7                               
For the days of old and his pal so cold
                         C    
Was taking his last long ride

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