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THE TRAIN
� Bob ([email protected])
WALKING ALONG ON THE OLD RAILROAD TRACK,
DREAMING OF TRAINS THAT WILL NEVER COME BACK-
THE TIN TRAINS, THE BEAUTIES ABOVE ALL BELIEF-
THE SUPER AND EL CAPITAN AND THE CHIEF
AND THINKING OF STEAM, THOSE OLD ENGINES OF STEEL,
THE SOUNDS THAT THEY MADE WHICH ALL NOW SEEM UNREAL-
THE CHUGGING AND PUFFING, THE SQUEALS OF THE AIR -
THE WHISTLES TO WARN THAT THEY SOON WOULD BE THERE
AND ON THE OLD FREIGHTS, THERE WAS A CABOOSE-
INSTEAD OF JUST SOME OLD FREIGHT CAR HANGING LOOSE-
A BRAKEMAN, A FLAGMAN, THE CONDUCTOR TOO
THE HOGGER AND FIREMAN MADE UP THE CREW
IT SEEMS THAT THEY�VE STOLEN THE LAST OF ROMANCE
THE HOTBOXES GONE, NOT TOO MUCH LEFT TO CHANCE
THEY RUN THEM WITH CENTRALIZED TRAFFIC CONTROL
AND NOT MUCH FUN LEFT WHEN THEY�RE STARTING TO ROLL
OH, WOULD THAT THEY COULD BRING THE TRAINS BACK TO ME
THE WONDERFUL SOUNDS AND THE SIGHTS YOU COULD SEE
IF MY WISH COULD BE DONE, THOUGH IT BE IN VAIN-
O BRING BACK, O BRING BACK, O BRING BACK THE TRAIN!
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