The Tehachapi Loop (lyrics and notes)
From the Album
Shuffles Gallops and Love Songs
by Damion Mikol Wagner
92 BPM
VERSE
G B / C E
PRE-CHORUS
B C G / B C D / F# G
CHORUS
B C D / F# G
OUTRO
F# G
VERSE
You go up and up
And up and up
Leaving Bakersfield
Honky-tonked enough
Chugga Chug Chug
Keep on climbing up
Need a roundabout
To crest this bluff
PRE-CHORUS
If your train is more than 40 feet
Your tail might be the next thing you meet
Nearly 40 trains a day
From Bakersfield to Mojave
CHORUS
You know you’re halfway through your route
When you’re goin round
The Tehachapi Loop
Good thing William Hood understood
To scale that mountain you need
The Tehachapi Loop
VERSE
You go down and down
and down and down
Into Bakersfield
Country girls abound
Steel on steel
Them wheels squeal
Roadmaster’s hand
Knows a steady feel
PRE-CHORUS
You can hear it’s
Call to forewarn
That’s the sound of the
Union Pacific horn
From the Mojave desert
Where the condor roams
After we turn the loop
We’re nearly home
CHORUS
You know you’re halfway through your route
When you’re goin round
The Tehachapi Loop
Good thing William Hood understood
To scale that mountain you need
The Tehachapi Loop