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[Verse]
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Well a man in a Cadillac used to come around here
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Looking for a long black train
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Said his baby left town with an engineer
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Cut across the midnight rain, boys
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Straight across the midnight rain
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Now everybody said he'd been in Vietnam
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When he was pretty young
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That's where his buddy got killed when his rifle jammed
         F                    Am
Now the fighting ain't never done, boys
      F                      C
No the fighting ain't never done


[Chorus]
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Red tip of a cigarette glowin'
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Windows up against the rain
  C                       Am
Night so dark, there was nothing else showin'
F                 Am
Nobody knew his name, boys
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Nobody knew his name


[Verse]
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Sheriff run him off every once in a while
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But he would be right back
       C                      Am
With a cup of coffee, an old newspaper
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Sitting by the side of the tracks, boys
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Crying by the side of the tracks
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He'd try to keep from turning the tables
           C                        Am
Hired walking horses out at Suffolk Downs
            C                               Am
But there was always some whiskey back at the stables
        F                  Am
If you knew where to look around, boys
       F                   C
If you knew where to look around


[Chorus]
 F            Dm
Red tip of a cigarette glowin'
F                      Dm
Windows up against the rain
 C                        Am
Night so dark, there was nothing else showin'
     F              Am
But nobody knew his name, boys
 F               C         Am C Am
Nobody knew his name


[Verse]
         C                      Am
Slinging pizza and beer down at Waterfront Park
     C                      Am
Handicapping dogs for the clientèle
  C
A different pick for each one
               Am
Yeah, it didn't matter who won
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Somebody gonna tip him well, boys
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Somebody gonna tip him well
           C                Am
Well they found him in his Cadillac car
 C                      Am
Out behind the old farm store
       C                         Am
He was sitting there like he was going somewhere
        F                     Am
And he wasn't coming back no more, boys
    F                     C
He wasn't coming back no more