Standard (EADGBE)
Desert train,
I'm gonna chase you down.
Makes no difference,
Where you're bound.
I wanna ride,
Rockin' the coals still
under the desert train.
Desert train,
You got a voice like thunder.
You got a song makes me,
Have to wonder,
What it's like,
To fly like a bat out of
Hell on a desert train.
And I'll be,
Gone like a ghost standing in the shadows,
Gone like a tumbleweed when the wind blows,
Gone like the souls who have vanished from the plains.
And I'll be,
Gone like a dream of days gone by and,
Gone like a string of boxcars flying,
Gone in the belly of a whale of a desert train.
Came out here,
Washed my hands,
Cleansed my sins, all those
Ancient sins
Oh but I,
Found no place out,
Here to hide my sorrow.
Desert train,
I'm a lot like you,
On my own,
Passing through,
This land.
Take me through the
Dust storms of tomorrow.
And I'll be,
Gone like a ghost standing in the shadows,
Gone like a tumbleweed when the wind blows,
Gone like the souls who have vanished from the plains.
And I'll be,
Gone like a dream of days gone by and,
Gone like a string of boxcars flying,
Gone in the belly of a whale of a desert train.