The Jupiter And The 119 by Railroad Earth
Key: GG | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


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The Jupiter is gleaming, shining in the sun
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Everybody ready for the great cross country run
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Tell me have you heard the story goin' down the wire ... goin' down the line?
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She's ready to be going breathing smoke & steam
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She edges on the iron and the crowd begins to scream
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Tell me have you heard the story of the Jupiter and the 119?
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They fire off the cannons she blows a whistle blast
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Goes flying round the corner moving strong and moving fast
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Tell me have you heard the story goin' down the wire ... goin' down the line?
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The Jupiter is on the run heading for the setting sun
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And when she rests, the east and west are tied
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Wooooo wooooo
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Off from California from the Sacramento yard
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The 119 is moving pushing strong and pushing hard
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She's through the snowy mountains took them right in stride
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Crested the Sierras and went down the other side
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Tell me have you heard the story going down the wire ... going down the line?
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Tell me have you heard the story of the Jupiter and the 119?
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Across the grassed horizon across the giant plain
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Across a thousand miles of iron roars the mighty U.P. train
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She tops the Sherman summit a mighty feat of man
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Sails through echo canyon and across the dale creek span
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Tell me have you heard the story going down the wire ... going down the line?
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Through the fiery desert the 119 has run
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Through the devil's gorge beneath the blazing fiery sun
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Through tunnels and through canyons cleared by shovel & by pick
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10,000 men who blasted, clawed and hauled with muscles thick
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Tell me have you heard the story of the Jupiter and the 119?
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The Jupiter is on the run heading for the setting sun
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And when she rests, the east and west are tied
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Wooooo wooooo
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Wooooo wooooo
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Wooooo wooooo
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They met in Promontory from the east and west they're here
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All across the country they've raised a mighty cheer
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The mighty trains are polished on the tracks they proudly rest
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The crowd's all gathered round them dressed up in their Sunday best
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A big brass band is playing it's a bright unclouded day
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The speaker's oratory and the bosses have their say
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The reverend says a prayer it's mercifully short
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The drunken rail-men laugh and the iron horses snort
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The engines move in closer they ease in down the line
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The champagne bottles pop so fill your glass it's toasting time
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The engines ease for meeting they're nose to nose alike
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They raise the silver hammer and they nail the golden spike
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Tell me have you heard the story going down the wire ... going down the line?
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Tell me have you heard the story of the Jupiter and the 119?
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Tell me have you heard the story of the Jupiter and the 119?
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Wooooo wooooo wooooo wooooo