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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Railroad Boy</h1>
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  16 <p>Trad.<br />
  17 Performed by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez during the second Rolling Thunder
  18 Revue (1976), incl. the <em>Hard Rain</em> TV special<br />
  19 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
  20
  21 <p>Dylan plays uncapoed, with the chords Am and F, whereas Baez plays
  22 finger-picking style with a capo on the 5th fret, where she produces
  23 the little interlude, that is what makes this song something special
  24 (aside from their singing, of course). The rhythms vary a bit, but
  25 this is in essence what she plays:</p>
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  27 <pre class="tab">
  28   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  29 |-----3-----0-----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  30 |-----------------|-----3-----0-----|-----------0-----|--0--------0-----|
  31 |-----------------|-----------------|-----3---------3-|-------3-------0-| 2x
  32 |-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
  33 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  34 |-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|
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  37 <pre class="verse">
  38 Em
  39
  40            Em
  41 She went upstairs to make her bed.
  42             C                  Em
  43 And not one word to her mother said.
  44
  45 Her mother she went upstairs too,
  46                     C                          Em
  47 Saying &quot;Daughter oh daughter, what's troubling you?&quot;
  48
  49 Oh mother oh mother I cannot tell.
  50 It's that railroad boy that looks so well.
  51 He's courted me my life away.
  52 And now at home I long to stay.
  53
  54 There is a place in yonder town
  55 where my love goes and he sits there down.
  56 And he takes a strange girl on his knee,
  57 And he tells to her what he won't tell me.
  58
  59 Her father he came home from work,
  60 Saying', &quot;Where's my daughter, she seems so hurt&quot;
  61 He went upstairs to give her hope,
  62 And he found her hanging by the rope.
  63
  64 He took a knife and he cut her down.
  65 And on her boossom these words he found:
  66 &quot;Go dig my grave both wide and deep.
  67 Put a marble stone at my head and feet.
  68
  69 And on my grave put a snowwhite dove
  70 To tell the world that I died of love.&quot;
  71 </pre>
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  74
  75 <p>Dylan's guitar:</p>
  76 <pre class="verse">
  77            Am
  78 She went upstairs to make her bed.
  79             F                  Am
  80 And not one word to her mother said.
  81
  82 Her mother she went upstairs too,
  83                     F                          Am
  84 Saying &quot;Daughter oh daughter, what's troubling you?&quot;
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