Biography:
John Sturgill Simpson (born June 8, 1978) is an American country music and roots rock singer-songwriter.
Simpson was born in Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky, the only child of a secretary and a state policeman who formerly worked undercover narcotics. Due to his father's work, Simpson's family moved to Versailles, outside Lexington, where Simpson graduated from Woodford County High School. Simpson's mother's family were coal miners. Simpson is the first male on his mother's side of the family to not work in a strip mine or deep mine.
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- Could You Love Me One More Time
- Hero
- I Never Go Around Mirrors
- Id Have To Be Crazy
- In Bloom
- It Aint All Flowers
- Just Let Go
- Keep It Between The Lines
- Life Aint Fair And The World Is Mean
- Life Of Sin
- Living The Dream
- Long White Line
- Medicine Springs
- Oh Sarah
- Old King Coal
- Panbowl
- Poor Rambler
- Railroad Of Sin
- Sea Stories
- Sitting Here Without You
- Slim Slow Slider
- Some Days
- Sugar Daddy
- The Promise
- The Storm
- Time After All
- Voices
- Water In A Well
- Welcome To Earth Pollywog
- You Can Have The Crown
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"Railroad of Sin"
Sturgill Simpson
High Top Mountain (2013)
Capo 3
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
E
Well they say you live & learn but it really seems more to me
B7 E
Like all along I've been learning how to live
E
Well for years I been drifting like a boat lost out at sea
B7 E
I've been out walking them ties on the railroad of sin
E
Well now looking back on my life now at some of the things I done
B7 E
Makes me wanna hang my head in shame
E
I was a no good, no account, low down heartbreaker
B7 E E/F# E/G E/G#
On that railroad of sin I was a highballing train
[Chorus]
A E
I'm just a poor boy had to beg, steal, & borrow
B7 E
Just a leaf blowing lonesome in the wind
A
I'm just a hitchhiker on that old highway of sorrow
E B7 E
Just a highballing train on that railroad of sin
[Solo]
|A |E |E |B7 E |E |
[Verse 3]
E
Well you won't feel it and you won't hear it coming
B7 E
Cause when she's rolling slow it don't make a sound
B7
But I got that throttle to ten on the railroad of sin
E B7 E
I'm coming off of the rails and I can't slow it down
[Chorus]
A E
I'm just a poor boy had to beg, steal, & borrow
B7 E
Just a leaf blowing lonesome in the wind
A
I'm just a hitchhiker on that old highway of sorrow
E B7 E
Just a highballing train on that railroad of sin
[Solo]
|A |E |E |B7 E |
[Chorus]
A E
Well I'm a poor boy had to beg, steal, & borrow
B7 E
Just a leaf blowing lonesome in the wind
A
I'm just a hitchhiker on that old highway of sorrow
E B7 E
Just a highballing train on that railroad of sin
Sturgill Simpson
High Top Mountain (2013)
Capo 3
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
E
Well they say you live & learn but it really seems more to me
B7 E
Like all along I've been learning how to live
E
Well for years I been drifting like a boat lost out at sea
B7 E
I've been out walking them ties on the railroad of sin
E
Well now looking back on my life now at some of the things I done
B7 E
Makes me wanna hang my head in shame
E
I was a no good, no account, low down heartbreaker
B7 E E/F# E/G E/G#
On that railroad of sin I was a highballing train
[Chorus]
A E
I'm just a poor boy had to beg, steal, & borrow
B7 E
Just a leaf blowing lonesome in the wind
A
I'm just a hitchhiker on that old highway of sorrow
E B7 E
Just a highballing train on that railroad of sin
[Solo]
|A |E |E |B7 E |E |
[Verse 3]
E
Well you won't feel it and you won't hear it coming
B7 E
Cause when she's rolling slow it don't make a sound
B7
But I got that throttle to ten on the railroad of sin
E B7 E
I'm coming off of the rails and I can't slow it down
[Chorus]
A E
I'm just a poor boy had to beg, steal, & borrow
B7 E
Just a leaf blowing lonesome in the wind
A
I'm just a hitchhiker on that old highway of sorrow
E B7 E
Just a highballing train on that railroad of sin
[Solo]
|A |E |E |B7 E |
[Chorus]
A E
Well I'm a poor boy had to beg, steal, & borrow
B7 E
Just a leaf blowing lonesome in the wind
A
I'm just a hitchhiker on that old highway of sorrow
E B7 E
Just a highballing train on that railroad of sin
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