https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/watch?v=cYXEBcZpNQQ&list=OLAK5uy_kCs8BjJjAgvhn-BxQfPSFwKmBqcYQlSNc<\/a><\/p>\n“Texas – 1947”<\/b><\/p>\n
Bein’ six years old, I had seen some trains before
\nSo it’s hard to figure out what I’m at the depot for
\nTrains are big and black and smokin’, steam screamin’ at the wheels
\nBigger than anything there is, at least that’s the way she feels<\/p>\n
Trains are big and black and smokin’, louder’n July four
\nBut everybody’s actin’ like this might be somethin’ more
\nThan just pickin’ up the mail, or the soldiers from the war
\nThis is somethin’ that even old man Wileman never seen before<\/p>\n
And it’s late afternoon on a hot Texas day
\nAnd somethin’ strange is goin’ on, and we’s all in the way<\/p>\n
Well there’s fifty or sixty people, just sittin’ on their cars
\nAnd the old men left their dominoes and come down from the bars
\nAnd everybody’s checkin’, old Jack Kittrel check his watch
\nAnd us kids put our ears to the rails to hear ’em pop.<\/p>\n
So we already knowed it, when they finally said “train time”
\nYou’d a-thought that Jesus Christ his-self was rollin’ down the line
\n‘Cause things got real quiet, mama jerked me back
\nBut not before I’d got the chance to lay a nickel on the track<\/p>\n
Look out, here she comes, she’s comin’
\nLook out, there she goes, she’s gone
\nScreamin’ straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone
\nBig and red and silver, she don’t make no smoke
\nShe’s a fast-rollin’ streamline, come to show the folks<\/p>\n
I said, look out, here she comes, she’s comin’
\nLook out, there she goes, she’s gone
\nScreamin’ straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone<\/p>\n
Lord, she never even stopped<\/p>\n
But she left fifty, sixty people still sittin’ on their cars
\nWonderin’ what it’s comin’ to and how it got this far
\nBut me, I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime
\nBy a mad dog, runaway red-silver streamline train<\/p>\n
Look out, here she comes, she’s comin’
\nLook out, there she goes, she’s gone
\nScreamin’ straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone
\nBig and red and silver, she don’t make no smoke
\nShe’s a fast-rollin’ streamline, come to show the folks<\/p>\n
I said, look out, here she comes, she’s comin’
\nLook out, there she goes, she’s gone
\nScreamin’ straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone
\nLook out, here she comes, she’s comin’
\nLook out, there she goes, she’s gone
\nScreamin’ straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone
\nLook out, here she comes, she’s comin’
\nLook out, there she goes, she’s gone
\nScreamin’ straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
~Curtis in \/-\\rizona! {!-{><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love this song.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know why I was thinking about it this morning… This link is to the Johnny Cash version, the first song on this album. https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/watch?v=cYXEBcZpNQQ&list=OLAK5uy_kCs8BjJjAgvhn-BxQfPSFwKmBqcYQlSNc “Texas – 1947” Bein’ six years old, I had seen some trains before So it’s hard to figure out what I’m at the depot for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-railroads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39258,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39257\/revisions\/39258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}