Joe’s Last Train -Country Gentlemen
Leroy Drumm and Pete Goble



[A]Standing by the [D]railway tracks,
his chin down on his [A]chest
The old man couldn’t catch the train,
although he tried his [E7]best
The [D]sleeping roll, the [E7]coffee pot,
the [D]jug half full of [A]wine
He threw inside the [D]box car,
that [E7]went on down the [A]line

{c: CHORUS}
Poor old [D]Joe’s to [E7]old to catch a [A]train
But [D]something keeps him trying just the [E7]same
Old [A]soldiers and old sailors have a place to [D]go
[A]But no one helps a [D]railroad bum like [E7]poor old hobo [A]Joe

{c: VERSE}
[A]Somewhere in his [D]memories,
there lives a younger [A]man
Who tried to leave the busy world,
he didn’t under[E7]stand
He [D]gave it up and [E7]caught a train
back [D]forty years a[A]go
Trains kept getting [D]faster
while [E7]poor old Joe got [A]slow

{c: CHORUS}
Poor old [D]Joe’s to [E7]old to catch a [A]train
But [D]something keeps him trying just the [E7]same
Old [A]soldiers and old sailors have a place to [D]go
[A]But no one helps a [D]railroad bum like [E7]poor old hobo [A]Joe

{c: VERSE}
He don’t regret the [D]life he’s lived,
the rails have been his [A]friend
if nothing else he’s living free
to come and go a[E7]gain
Though [D]time has come to [E7]claim its’ toll,
[D]age has slowed him [A]down
He knows he’ll try his [D]luck again,
the [E7]next train out of [A]town

{c: CHORUS}
Poor old [D]Joe’s to [E7]old to catch a [A]train
But [D]something keeps him trying just the [E7]same
Old [A]soldiers and old sailors have a place to [D]go
[A]But no one helps a [D]railroad bum like [E7]poor old hobo [A]Joe

[A]But no one helps a [D]railroad bum
like [E7]poor old hobo [A]Joe

Trains kept getting [D]faster
while [E7]poor old Joe got [A]slow