Special Streamline

That's that fast Special Streamline
 Leavin' outta Memphis, Tennessee
 Goin' into New Orleans
 She runnin' so fast, the hobos don't fool with this train
 They stand on the teack with their hat in their hands
 I had a friend girl that mornin' was catchin' that train
 She got up singin' this song
 Hey Dad, I'm sorry to leave my home
 Mm-mm-mm, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lordy
 She heard that 8:30 local blowin' that mornin'
 She hadn't rid the train in a good while
 She thought it'd have that Special Streamline
 She heard at 8:30 local when she is comin'
 To the line, declared up for that Streamline
 Blowin' like this
 She said, Daddy, is that my train?
 I say, I ain't keepin' up with the train time
 I'm tryin-a make a few dimes
 She dropped her head went to singin' an' cryin'
 It's alright how you turn me down
 Mm-mm-mm, I ain't got a dime
 After she called for a ticket
 She heard this Special Streamline
 Going 36 miles from Memphis, Tennessee
 Make ya lonesome now
 Cause I hobo myself, sometimes
 Man asks her, Where the other train?
 She told him she didn't know
 If she heard a bell she could tell him all about it
 As she dropped over that hill
 And stopped off in the valley
 She heard the bell begin to toll like this
 Make a sound like a church bell toll
 Before she got to that ten mile tunnel
 She blowed and throw'd on the airbrakes
 Airbrakes!
 When she got to that ten mile tunnel
 She was gettin' close
 She was tippin cars on automatic switch
 Gettin' her water and coal on the fly
 You could hear her when she was strikin'
 That double iron like this
 When she run 'cross the last one
 She squalled in
 This girl looked out an' seen that train
 She commenced to singin' an cryin'
 'Hey, dad I don't wanna leave'
 Mm-mm, I believe I'll lose my mind
 When that train got a little closer
 Down to New Orleans, she went around
 That curve, you would hear her
 When she's blowin' like this
 The people's always standin' at the station
 Lying there to see that train come in
 You would hear her when she squalls