Lyrics:
man
'Til he stepped in front of the railroad train
He rode across the plains
Rode on a fruit freight train
The hauled bananas to Savannah
Wore
Ooh
We're comin' from the mountains,
Across the Northern plains
It's off to California,
Then back again to Maine
Singin' a song that you all know,
The sky splits for me and contrails evaporate
For a high red moon
Saccharine love or blood and hate
Drawing lines between the skyline dots
A northern
the railroad is done
So over the mountains and over the plains
Into the muskeg and into the rain
Up the St. Lawrence all the way to Gaspe
Swingin' our
the railroad is done
So over the mountains and over the plains
Into the muskeg and into the rain
Up the St. Lawrence all the way to Gaspe
Swingin' our
You know my father was a conductor on a train
Hauling iron ore from the Northern Range
Load those cars and then travel cross the land
Thinking about
and a case of beer
In the darkest hours of the night
Catching out in some forgotten railroad out on the plain
The foamers and the railfans the bull out in
it in
Wasn't trying to get away
But it came out of nowhere
We could move to Medora
In the northern plains
You told me you couldn't go
Just stay there
I know a man, his name is Hoad
Now he is ugly, like a toad
He got green eyes and wrinkled skin
Ain't no place he never been
Up and down the railroad
On the underground railroad I will ride
At night I ride on a Northern Star
If I gotta go to heaven then I'll go that far
If I gotta go to heaven then I'll go that far
Well I live out in Southern Arizona
I followed an abandoned railroad track
Trains they used run from Bisbee out to Juarez
But the copper mines are
can't afford
Hear that old conductor holler "All Aboard!"
Wonder how this world looks, outside of picture books
Rocky mountains, rollin' plains an'
No, I can't help it, I'm a traveling soul
Like that river running, I was born to go
But wherever all these winding paths and railroad tracks may lead
on the open plain
Once upon a starlit sky
Watching the northern lights
Once upon a winter sun
You can't run and hide on the open plain
In the heart
my brain
A refrain of those plain days
Once I saw a worker driving
A railroad spike into the ground
And the vision of his hammering
It beat the sound
a headlight on the Northern railroad
Keep us traveling through the snow
Hang a shining star for all the world to see
Welcome cherished friends as one big family
not believe
How you wrapped your arms around me
Your majesty
I wanna slow it down where the water's deep
Get that Northern healing washing over me
a rainbow of tears
lightning up the sky with its
multitude of fears
The Great Northern Sea
Holds the master key
No one dares to disagree
With the Great
Murdered crow
Now you climb that northern face
I am one
Land of none
Railroads throne
Steam black train
Now you climb that northern face
my home
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
I shiver when the cold winds blow
My daddy was a railroad man
Drove a mile and a half
world, I'm bound to ramble.
Through storm and wind, through sleet and rain
I'm bound to ride that northern railroad,
Perhaps I'll take the very next
A widow's life is no life at all
Look said the ghost, there in the hall
Her big brown eyes
And northern beer
Pulled her through her living years
never expect to see you again
For I'm bound to ride that northern railroad
Perhaps I'll die upon this train.
(chorus) Perhaps he'll die upon this train.
we go from here? Oh woman, my woman"
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
And she said, "nowhere"
Did you hear about the railroad going under
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