Slow Train

SLOW TRAIN
Words and music by Bob Dylan

Transcription by Kelvin Sherlock (ksherloc@zoo.uvm.edu)

Am
Sometimes

I feel so low-down and disgusted

               Dm
Can't help but wonder

                          Am
what's happenin' to my companions

Are they lost or are they found,
have they counted the cost it'll take to bring down
All their earthly principles
They're gonna have to abandon?

chorus:
              F                Dm                   Am
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.

I had a woman
Down in Alabama,
She was a backwoods girl,
But she sure was realistic,
She said, "Boy, without a doubt,
Have to quit your mess and straighten out,
You could die down here,
Be just another accident statistic."

All that foreign oil
Controlling American soil,
Look around you,
It's just bound to make you embarrassed.
Sheiks walkin' around like kings,
Wearing fancy jewels and nose rings,
Deciding America's future
From Amsterdam and to Paris

Man's ego is inflated,
His laws are outdated,
They don't apply no more,
You can't rely no more
To be standin' around waitin'
In the home of the brave,
Jefferson turnin' over in his grave,
Fools glorifying themselves,
Trying to manipulate Satan

Big-time negotiators,
False healers and woman haters,
Masters of the bluff,
Masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see
Wears a cloak of decency,
All non-believers and men stealers
Talkin' in the name of religion

People starving and thirsting
Grain elevators are bursting
You know it costs more to store the food
Than it does to give it.
They say lose your inhibitions
Follow your own ambitions,
They talk about a life of brotherly love,
Show me someone who knows how to live it.

Well, my baby went to Illinois
With some bad-talkin' boy she could destroy
A real suicide case,
But there was nothin' I could do to stop it,
I don't care about economy
I don't care about astronomy
But it's sure to bother me to see
My loved ones turning into puppets