The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30463   Message #1644713
Posted By: Ebbie
09-Jan-06 - 03:16 AM
Thread Name: Railroad Song Buffs--Check Here Please
Subject: Lyr Add: THAT TRAIN SONG (Phil Halliday)
There's one we do that I've heard anywhere else. It's by Phil Halliday. He calls it 'That Train Song'

(I just looked it up. It is evidently by Jacques Goudreault and Halliday sings it shorter and slightly different. But it's an interesting tune with long drawn out vowel sounds. It's fun to sing. We sing it progressively faster as the box cars go rattling down the line.)

Well, he gave all he had to my maw and me
Just another boy child he would never see
Well, my maw and my paw went their separate ways
I was born on a midnight train

Well, I was raised in a railside shack
And I'd fall asleep to that clickety clack
All day long I'd run alongside
Learned real young how to hop a ride

Well, I got a soul like a runaway train
I got a heart that feels no pain
When you're born with tracks 'neath your bed
You sleep one eye open, pointin' straight ahead