Texas 1947

Now bein' six years old, I had seen some trains before
 So it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for
 Trains are big and black and smokin' steam, screamin' at the wheels
 Bigger than anything they is, at least that's the way she feels
 Trains are big and black and smokin', louder on July four
 But everybody's actin' like this might be somethin' more
 Than just pickin' up the mail, or the soldiers from the war
 This is somethin' that even old man Wileman never seen before
 And it's late afternoon on, a hot Texas day
 Somethin' strange is goin' on, and we's all in the way
 Well, there's 50, 60 people, they're just sittin' on their cars
 And the old men left their dominos and come down from the bars
 And everybody's checkin', old Jack Kittrel check his watch
 And us kids put our ears to the rails to hear 'em pop
 So we already knowed it, when they finally said, "Train time"
 You'd have thought that Jesus Christ himself was rollin' down the line
 'Cause things got real quiet, momma jerked me back
 But not before I'd got the chance to lay a nickel on the track
 Look out here she comes, she's comin'
 Look out there she goes, she's gone
 Screamin' straight through Texas
 Like a mad dog cyclone
 Big, red, and silver
 She don't make no smoke
 She's a fast-rollin' streamline
 Come to show the folks
 I said, look out here she comes, she's comin'
 Look out there she goes, she's gone
 Screamin' straight through Texas
 Like a mad dog cyclone
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 Lord, she never even stopped
 But she left 50, 60 people, still sittin' on their cars
 And wonderin' what it's comin' to
 And how it got this far
 But me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime
 By a mad dog, runaway red-silver streamline train
 Look out here she comes, she's comin'
 Look out there she goes, she's gone
 Screamin' straight through Texas
 Like a mad dog cyclone
 Big, red, and silver
 She don't make no smoke
 She's a fast-rollin' streamline
 Come to show the folks
 I said, look out here she comes, she's comin'
 Look out there she goes, she's gone
 Screamin' straight through Texas
 Like a mad dog cyclone
 Look out here she comes, she's comin'
 Look out there she goes, she's gone
 Screamin' straight through Texas
 Like a mad dog cyclone
 Look out here she comes, she's comin'
 Look out there she goes, she's gone
 Screamin' straight through Texas
 Like a mad dog cyclone...