Train in the Distance Chords by Paul Simon

[Start]

[Intro]
D G A D
■ ■ ■ ■


[Verse]
                  G           B7                     Em 
She was beautiful as Southern skies the night he met her
Em7                Asus4  
She was married to someone
D                                  G            
He was doggedly determined that he would get her
Em7 A               G     D
He  was old 'he was young ■
                       D7           
From time to time he'd tip his heart
G                   D       
■ But each time she withdrew
A                                           Em      
Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
A                     G    D G
Everybody thinks it's true ■ ■
D A                   G                    B      
■ Well eventually the boy and the girl get married
Em7                         A  
■   Sure enough they have a son
D                 G                           B7               
■ And though they both were occupied with the child she carried
Em                   G     D
■  Disagreements had begun ■


[Chorus]
                         D7   
And in a while they fell apart
G                   D 
■ It wasn't hard to do
                    C          B7           Em      
Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
A                     G   
Everybody thinks it's true
D G D G
■ ■ ■ ■


[Verse]
                 D        
Two disappointed believers
G                             D
■ Two people playing the game ■
G                  D         
■ Negotiations and love songs
G         Bm           D             A7  
Are often mistaken for ■ one and the same
Dmaj7                                          B7      Em7
■     Now the man and the woman they remain in contact ■  
                              Asus4
Let us say it's for the child ■    


[Chorus]
D                                           B7       Em      
■ With disagreements about the meaning of a marriage contract
                       G    D
Conversations hard and wild ■
                                         G
But from time to time he makes her laugh ■
                    D  
She cooks a meal or two
Dmaj7                          B7           Em      
Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
A                     G    D G D
Everybody thinks it's true ■ ■ ■
G                         D    
What is the point of this story
G                D       
What information pertains
G                             D        
■ The thought that life could be better
G                  D Em   A7                 D     
Is woven indelibly ■ into our hearts and our brains


[End]