Jim Croce - Railroad Song Lyrics

Lyrics Railroad Song - Jim Croce



When I was a boy in the days of the train
I′d sit by the tracks on a long summer day
And I'd wave at the brakesman, and he′d wave back at me
While the thunderclouds rolled out of East Tennessee
But the dreams of a boy disappear when you're grown
And though I may dream, the railroads are gone
The ties they are rotten and the tracks shot to hell
Along with my dreams and the old railroad bell
In my dreams I ride the rails to California
Workin' diners and farms along the way
Or I′d hop a ride to hide across the border
With a black eyed girl beside me all the way
Now the mountains are silent and the railroads are gone
And the coal towns no longer hear the miners at dawn
But the train whistle shrills out her memories to me
While the thunderclouds roll out of East Tennessee
In my dreams I ride the rails to California
Workin′ diners and farms along the way
Or I'd hop a ride to hide across the border
With a black eyed girl beside me all the way
Now the mountains are silent and the railroads are gone
And the coal towns no longer hear the miners at dawn
But the train whistle shrills out her memories to me
While the thunderclouds roll out of East Tennessee



Writer(s): James Croce, Ingrid Croce


Jim Croce - The Original Albums…
Album The Original Albums…
date of release
25-07-2011

1 You Don't Mess Around with Jim
2 Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day
3 New York's Not My Home
4 Hard Time Losin' Man
5 Photographs and Memories
6 Walkin' Back to Georgia
7 Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)
8 Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)
9 Box #10
10 A Long Time Ago
11 Hey Tomorrow
12 One Less Set of Footsteps
13 Roller Derby Queen
14 Dreamin' Again
15 Careful Man
16 Alabama Rain
17 A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' the Blues)
18 Next Time, This Time
19 Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
20 These Dreams
21 Speedball Tucker
22 It Doesn't Have to Be That Way
23 Lover's Cross
24 Five Short Minutes
25 Age
26 Workin' at the Car Wash Blues
27 I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song
28 Salon and Saloon
29 Thursday
30 Top Hat Bar And Grill
31 Recently
32 The Hard Way Every Time
33 Mississippi Lady
34 Chain Gang Medley
35 Ol' Man River
36 Which Way Are You Goin'?
37 Stone Walls
38 King's Song
39 Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women
40 (And) I Remember Her
41 Cotton Mouth River
42 More Than That Tomorrow
43 The Migrant Worker
44 Child Of Midnight
45 Railroad Song
46 Country Girl
47 Maybe Tomorrow
48 The Way We Used To




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