{"id":10986,"date":"2022-06-23T04:48:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=10986"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:34:42","slug":"rock-island-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/rock-island-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Island Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHEET MUSIC<\/a>
\nJohnny Cash – Brothers Four<\/p>\n

Fun song as the tempo changes throughout.  This song's character is all about rhytmn.\r\nIt mimics a steam logocmotive starting out slow and picking up steam until it's flyin\/ down the\r\n track.\r\n \r\nHere are playing hints:\r\n[Intro] thru [Chorus 1] - Very slow with big rhythm steady hammer on the sixth string [ 0h3 ]. \r\nThink of a\r\nsteam locomotive's heavy chugging as it pulls out of the station.\r\n[Verse 1] - Pace begins to quicken to moderate but remains rhythmic chugging.\r\n[Interlude 2] thru [Chorus 2] - Pace again quickens some but with less chugging and more \r\nrhytmic strumming.\r\n[Interlude 3] - the pace again quickens, whith full chord hammer-ons with each \"Wah\" to sound \r\nlike\r\nthe locomotive's chugging sound at high speed.\r\n[Chorus 3 thru end] - Full pace.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Intro]\r\nG<\/span>\r\nThere\u2019s room for me, there\u2019s room for you.\r\nD<\/span>                                  G<\/span>\r\nPlenty of room for the Rock Island crew.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Interlude 1]\r\nG<\/span>  G<\/span>  G<\/span>  G<\/span>\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 1]\r\nG<\/span>\r\nRock Island Line is a mighty good road,\r\nG<\/span>                       D<\/span>\r\nRock Island Line is the road to ride.\r\nG<\/span>\r\nRock Island Line is a mighty good road,\r\n       C<\/span>       G<\/span>\r\nIf you want to ride it gotta\u2019,\r\nC<\/span>               G<\/span>\r\nStride like you flyin\u2019,\r\n        C<\/span>             G<\/span>\r\nGet you ticket at the station,\r\n        D7<\/span>          G<\/span>\r\nOn the Rock Island Line.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\nG<\/span>\r\nEngine in front, caboose in the back,\r\nD<\/span>                             G<\/span>\r\nGoes so fast \u2018most leaves the track.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Interlude 2]\r\n\r\nG<\/span>  G<\/span>  G<\/span>  G<\/span>\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 2]\r\nG<\/span>\r\nNow the Rock Island Line it is a mighty good road,\r\nG<\/span>                          D<\/span>\r\nRock Island Line it is the road to ride.\r\nG<\/span>\r\nRock Island Line it is a mighty good road,\r\n           C<\/span>       G<\/span>\r\nAnd if you want to ride it gotta\u2019,\r\nC<\/span>               G<\/span>\r\nStride like you flyin\u2019,\r\n        C<\/span>             G<\/span>\r\nGet you ticket at the station,\r\n        D7<\/span>          G<\/span>\r\nOn the Rock Island Line.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Interlude 3]\r\nG  G  G  G\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nA\r\nThis train goes flyin\u2019 on by now this train.\r\n                                 E7\r\nThis train goes flyin\u2019 on by now this train.\r\nA\r\nThis train goes flyin\u2019 on by\r\n    D                        D7\r\nNow whistle and smoke gonna\u2019 fill the sky, now.\r\nA               E         E7     A\r\nThis train goes flyin\u2019 on by now this train.\r\n \r\n \r\nN.C.\r\nHear that train!\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\nA\r\nWah     Wah     Wah-wha Wah-wha\r\nA\r\nWha-wha Wha-wha Wha-wha Wha-wha\r\nA\r\nWha\u2026\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 3]\r\nA\r\nNow the Rock Island Line it is a mighty good road,\r\nA                          E\r\nRock Island Line it is the road to ride.\r\nA\r\nRock Island Line it is a mighty good road,\r\n           D       A\r\nAnd if you want to ride it gotta\u2019,\r\nD               A\r\nStride like you flyin\u2019,\r\n        D             A\r\nGet you ticket at the station,\r\n        E7          A\r\nOn the Rock Island Line.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Outro]\r\n        D             A\r\nGet you ticket at the station,\r\n        E7          A   A  A  A  A\r\nOn the Rock Island Line.\r\n
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SHEET MUSIC Johnny Cash – Brothers Four Fun song as the tempo changes throughout. This song’s character is all about rhytmn. It mimics a steam logocmotive starting out slow and picking up steam until it’s flyin\/ down the track. Here are playing hints: [Intro] thru [Chorus 1] – Very slow … CLICK TO VIEW SONGRock Island Line<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songpics-sheetmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29445,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10986\/revisions\/29445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}