Lyrics:
Atlantic puffin, Montezuma quail
Virginia rail, California black rail
If you tried to rhyme bird names you would fail
Black-footed albatross, Cassin's
The Washington and Old Dominion
You could see that plume of smoke
You could hear the whistle blow
Rail through North Virginia
The Washington and Old
Chug-along, chug-along, like the old Virginia creeper,
Down among the mountain laurel, I'm a gonna meetcha,
Baby stoke my fire,
So we can make it
proved to you!
There was a big crowd of mourners at the church house
The section hands laid him in the sand
Trains go by on the rails John Henry laid.
lookin? to the left
Wasn?t lookin? to the right
Just kept walking? like Virginia to the surf
Towards the far end of the night
Time hangs like a noose
So after a month of hard boiling with Abenaky Joe, my sisters of the road
Boxcar Bertha, Virginia Slim, Ethel Lynn and Virginia Stropher came
the freight train off of the rails
He got the fever
He got the freight liner fever
Well, pierce that box; what you carryin' in that cigarette pack?
I
the freight train off of the rails
He got the fever
He got the freight-liner fever
[Chorus]
Well, pierce that box, what you carryin' in that cigarette
place to us somewhere in Virginia
Just far enough South where everyone moves a step slower
And even the cashier at the gas station greets you in
those coins that get tossed on the rails
Beneath the machine
I grab the Coal Train with Labrona
Take a cold swig from Virginia
Ride on coat tails with
and I long to see her again
Ooh if I could only say when
Victoria, Odessa, Virginia, Adelaide
Arizona, Dakota, all these names I've said
I've moaned them
Six and a half hours into the west virginia night
Half a mile from home and I was makin' pretty good time
Thought that I'd gone far enough I
Point
Now, Lynchburg to Danville - that's a ghost filled rail
If you listen, you can hear the engineer's wife wail
When life goes wrong, this train
Lynchburg to Danville that's a ghost filled rail
If you listen you can hear the engineer's wife wail
When life goes wrong this train goes on
Better say
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