Rancid – Daly City Train
170 bpm 4/4 8th Note Strumming
[…And Out Come the Wolves 1995]
Verse 1
G G F F
He was an artist… and a writer…
C C G G
and a poet… and a friend-ddd-ddd-ddd…
G G F F
In a man's… life… he will take a fall…
C C G G
but how low he goes… it just depend-ddd-dds…
Verse 2
G G
Yeah he's shooting dope…
F F
in the men's room…
C C
at the station…
G G
Daly City train-nnn-nnn-nnn…
G G
Have you ever seen an angel…
F F
Well I know I have…
C C
You see they'll stay here for a while…
G G
and then they'll fly away-yyy-yyy…
Chorus
C F
Jackyl had a beer in his hand
G G
last time I seen him…
C
When he rolled the dice…
F
You know he never thought twice…
G G
He never thought twice about being him…
C F
Jackyl had a beer in his hand
G G
last time I seen him…
C
When he rolled the dice…
F
You know he never thought twice…
G G
He never thought twice about being him…
Verse 3
G G
Some grown up…
F F
and some grow old…
C C
but what about the kid…
G G
who never learned the rule-eee-ees…
G G F F
Spent all these years… on this earth…
C C
When you look back…
G G
it's just a flicker of time-eee-eee…
Verse 4
G G
Jackyl was… one of the one's…
F F
that perished…
C C
Yeah he was one of the one's…
G G
that was already saved-ddd-ddd…
G G
Through all the evil…
F F
and wreckage… Yeah-hhh…
C C
He maintained…
G G
a sense of himself-fff-fff… Yeah-hhh…
Chorus
C F
Jackyl had a beer in his hand
G G
last time I seen him…
C
When he rolled the dice…
F
You know he never thought twice…
G G
He never thought twice about being him…
C F
Jackyl had a beer in his hand
G G
last time I seen him…
C
When he rolled the dice…
F
You know he never thought twice…
G G
He never thought twice about being him…
Solo
G G F F C C G G
G G F F C C G G
Dig it…
Bridge
C
Some men are in prison even though they
F
walk the streets at night…
G
Other men who got the lockdown are
G
free as a bird in flight…
C F
How about the hour in the system that ended in a
G G
one-way line our measures could not stand it…
Interlude
*c *f * G. ** F. *g *em
Chorus
C F
Jackyl had a beer in his hand
G G
last time I seen him…
C
When he rolled the dice…
F
You know he never thought twice…
G G
He never thought twice about being him…
C F
Jackyl had a beer in his hand
G G
last time I seen him…
C
When he rolled the dice…
F
You know he never thought twice…
G G
He never thought twice about being him…
Outro
*c *f * G. ** F. *g *em ^ C