Train in the Distance Chords by Paul Simon

[Start]

[Intro]
Eb Ebsus4 Ab Eb Ab Eb7 Ebm7 Eb
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Db Ab Eb
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[Verse]
                                                         Fm7
She was beautiful as Southern skies the night he met her ■  
                   Bb7    
She was married to someone
Eb                                          C7     
■  He was doggedly determined that he would get her
Fm7                    Ab    Eb
■   He was old she was young ■ 
                       Db      Ebsus4
From time to time he'd tip his heart 
Ab                Eb       Ab Eb
But each time she withdrew ■  ■ 
                    Db                      Ab      
Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
Ab                        
Everybody thinks it's true


[Chorus]
Eb        Eb7       Ebsus4                  Ab      
Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
                           Eb Ebsus4
Everybody thinks it's true ■  ■     


[Verse]
     Eb                              C7          Fm7
Well eventually the boy and the girl get married ■  
                        Bb7
Sure enough they have a son
Eb                                                C7  Fm7    
And though they were both occupied with the child she carried
                        Eb
Disagreements had begun ■ 
                         Db        
And in a while they just fell apart
Ebsus4    Ab        
It wasn't hard to do
Fm7 Eb Ebsus4                                              
■   ■  Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
Ab                         Eb
Everybody thinks it's true ■ 
                    Db                      Ab      
Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
                      Eb   Dbmaj7
Everybody thinks it's true ■     


[Chorus]
                 Cm7      
Two disappointed believers
                            Eb
Two people playing the game ■ 
Ab               Eb        
Negotiations and love songs
Gb        Db           B             Bbsus4
Are often mistaken for ■ one and the same  


[Verse]
                               C7        Fm7    
Now the man and the woman they remain in contact
                        Bb7  
Let us say it's for the child
Eb                                                    C7      
■  With disagreements about the meaning of a marriage contract
Fm7                        Ab   Eb
■   Conversations hard and wild ■ 
                      Ebsus4            
But from time to time he makes her laugh
Ab                  Eb 
She cooks a meal or two
                    Ebsus4                  Ab      
Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
                      Ab  
Everybody thinks it's true
Eb                     Db    Ebsus4                     Ab
■  Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance ■ 
                      Eb  
Everybody thinks it's true


[Chorus]
Dbmaj7                           Cm    Cm7
■      What is the point of this story ■  
                 Cm7     
What information pertains
Ab          Abmaj7             Eb    
The thought that life could be better
   Gb    Db       
Is woven indelibly
B               Bbsus4
Into our hearts ■     
        Eb    
And our brains
  Ebsus4 Ab     Ebm7    
A train  in the distance
Eb Db Ebsus4 Ab Eb Ebsus4 Ab Ebm7
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[Bridge]
Ebsus4 Ab Eb Ebsus4 Eb Ab Eb Ebsus4
■      ■  ■  ■      ■  ■  ■  ■     


[Chorus]
Ab Eb Ebm7 Ab Ebm7 Eb7 Ebm7 Ab
■  ■  ■    ■  ■    ■   ■    ■ 
Eb Ebsus4 Ab Db Ebsus4 Db Ab Ebm7
■  ■      ■  ■  ■      ■  ■  ■   


[Solo]
Eb Ebsus4 Ab Eb Ebsus4 Db Ab Eb
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[Outro]