Standard (EADGBE)

 When I was a little kid

 My father told me to see the world for him

 So I took my things

 And painted pink sunsets over the vast oceans

Send your dad a note

 You made it, kid, you're on the road

Send your dad a note

 You made it, kid, you're on the road

Mother, teach me about the country

 Can you tell the lie

 From the lives that you've seen?

Mother, can you tell me

 Where this road is gonna lead?

 Just let yourself go

 And sell your soul to the road

 Just let yourself go

 And sell your soul to the road

Don't you know I was resting under the tracks

Even then I knew I would always be back

 And I know that this steel train

 is gonna ride on 'till the end

 And I know that this steel train

 is gonna ride on 'till the end

Blue skies and desert rain

 I passed my life by course of steel train

 And i ride to the end of the rail

 I tell my father of all my tales

 I say everything I saw

I was thinking of you

 And the reason I am

Here is all because of you

Don't you know I was resting under the tracks

Even then I knew I would always be back

 And I know that my steel train

 is gonna ride on 'till the end

 And I know that my steel train

 is gonna ride on 'till the end

 I know there's room on this steel train

 and we're gonna ride it 'till the end