RAILROADIN' SOME - Henry Thomas (7 October 1929)

I leave Fort Worth, Texas and go to Texarkana,
And double back to Fort Worth.
Come on down to Dallas.
Change cars on the Katy.
Coming through the Territory to Kansas City.
And from Kansas City in Missouris.
And Missouri to Chicago.
I'm on my way but I don't know where.

Change cars on the TP.
Leaving Fort Worth, Texas.
Going through Dallas.
Hello Terrell.
Grand Saline.
Silver Lake.
Mineola.
Tyler.
On to Longview.
Jefferson.
Marshall.
Little Sandy.
Big Sandy.
Texarkana.
And double back to Fort Worth.

Change cars on the Katy.
Leaving Dallas, Texas.
Going through Rockwell.
Hello Greenville.
Celeste.
Denison.
South McAlester.
Territory.
Muskogee.
Hello, Wagner.
Parsons, Kansas.
Kansas City.
Sedalia.
Then I change cars and jump into St Louis.

Hello Springfield.
I'm on my way, Chicago.

Bloomington.

Joliet.
Can the High Boiler pass on through?
High Boiler on through, sir.

Grand Crossing.

Thirty-first Street depot.

Polk Street depot.

Chicago.

(Transcription from RR MacLeod, 1988: 248-9)