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Thread #122032 Message #2671797
Posted By: Mary Katherine
04-Jul-09 - 11:15 PM
Thread Name: Songs About the Disappearing of the Trains
Subject: RE: Songs About the Disappearing of the Trains
Nanci Griffith wrote one called "Ghost In The Music" on her album "Once In a Very Blue Moon":
Down at the station the tracks are cold The wheels of thunder they roll no more And the heart of America cries for the soul Who won't be rolling home And the dragon weeps with empty eye The whistle sighs no more in the night It rests in the lines like a ghost in the music The soul of America's pride...