G C
The night is as black as the coal dust on the tracks
D C G
Up to the east day is dawning
C Am
From time to time I get women on my mind
D
I'm a son of a gun
C G A D
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight
C G D G7
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight
G C
The train that I'm on is a hundred boxcars long
D C G
So I don't sleep through to the morning
C Am
That's some chilly wind in this gondola I'm in
D
I wish I had a glass of beer
C G A D
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight
C G D G7
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight
C G A D
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight
C G D G7
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight
A E A E A E A
D
The boarding house reach is a thing no school can teach you
E D A
I confess I've been outfumbled
D Bm
And the sound of the beans boiling through the evergreens
E
Sure do please a hungry man
D A B E
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight
D A E A
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight
D A B E
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight
D A E A7
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight
G C
The sound of the wheels rebounds across the fields
D C G
I'm a name with no number
C Am
And so I guess I'd be drifting more or less
D
But still it's not meant to be
D A B E
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight
D A E A
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight
D A B E
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight
D A E A7
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight
D A B E
Borderstone, Borderstone gonna cross your line tonight
D A E A7
Borderstone, pretty little town, gonna make my bed tonight