"The Engineers Don't Wave Anymore" is done by the Lynn Morris (bluegrass) Band, and was written by Marshall Wilborn, Lynn's husband. Here's the way we do it:

The Engineers Don't Wave Anymore
Marshall Wilborn Tom T. Hall

(Verse)
E E B7 B7
A A E E
E E A A
E B7 E E

(Chorus)
E E B7 B7
A A E E
E E A A
E B7 E C#m
E B7 E E

When I was a little boy I'd hang around the track
Watching them trains go to Louisville and back
I had my dreams and I had my plans
I was going to be an engineer man.

Them big old trains used to chug chug and spew
They were my heroes and they knew that I knew
No matter how far they'd go down the track
They'd always turn 'round and come back.

(Chorus)
But the engineers don't wave from the trains anymore
Not the way they did back in 1954
They've all got computers and diesels and things
And the engineers don't wave from the trains anymore
No, the engineers don't wave from the trains.


There's more important things that changed in the world
Engineers forgot about us little boys and girls
But I still get a far-away look in my eye
When I hear an old train in the night.