[00:01.72]Now bein' six years old, I had seen some trains before,
[00:05.53]
[00:06.15]so it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for.
[00:10.70]Trains are big and black and smokin' - steam screamin' at the wheels,
[00:14.67]
[00:15.86]bigger than anything they is, at least that's the way she feels
[00:19.54]
[00:20.05]Trains are big and black and smokin', louder'n July four,
[00:24.28]
[00:25.03]but everybody's actin' like this be might somethin' more. . .
[00:29.01]. . .than just pickin' up the mail, or the soldiers from the war.
[00:34.06]This is somethin' that even old man Wileman never seen before.
[00:38.55]And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day.
[00:42.64]
[00:43.51]somethin' strange is goin' on, and we's all in the way.
[00:47.44]
[00:49.37]Well there's fifty or sixty people they're just sittin' on their cars,
[00:53.25]
[00:53.81]and the old men left their dominos and they come down from the bars.
[00:57.86]
[00:58.55]Everybody's checkin', old Jack Kittrel check his watch,
[01:02.30]
[01:03.05]and us kids put our ears to the rails to hear 'em pop.
[01:06.98]
[01:07.54]So we already knowed it, when they finally said 'train time'
[01:12.25]you'd a-thought that Jesus Christ his-self was rollin' down the line.
[01:16.18]
[01:16.87]'Cause things got real quiet, momma jerked me back,
[01:20.61]
[01:21.55]But not before I'd got the chance to lay a nickel on the track.
[01:25.36]
[01:26.35]Look out here she comes, she's comin',
[01:28.60]Look out there she goes, she's gone,
[01:30.66]screamin' straight through Texas
[01:32.78]like a mad dog cyclone.
[01:34.46]
[01:35.09]Big, red, and silver,
[01:37.21]she don't make no smoke,
[01:39.21]she's a fast-rollin' streamline
[01:41.83]come to show the folks.
[01:42.92]
[01:43.99]Look out here she comes, she's comin'
[01:46.36]Look out there she goes, she's gone,
[01:48.54]screamin' straight through Texas
[01:50.35]like a mad dog cyclone.
[01:52.47]. . .Lord, she never even stopped.
[02:02.63]
[02:05.31]She left fifty or sixty people still sittin' on their cars,
[02:09.06]
[02:10.30]and they're wonderin' what it's comin' to
[02:12.55]and how it got this far.
[02:13.92]
[02:14.49]Oh but me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime
[02:18.16]
[02:19.04]by a mad dog, runaway red-silver streamline. . . train
[02:23.83]
[02:24.63]Look out here she comes, she's comin',
[02:25.94]Look out there she goes, she's gone,
[02:28.13]screamin' straight through Texas
[02:29.75]like a mad dog cyclone.
[02:32.37]Big, red, and silver,
[02:34.50]she don't make no smoke,
[02:36.62]she's a fast-rollin' streamline
[02:38.54]
[02:39.23]come to show the folks.
[02:41.11]Look out here she comes, she's comin'
[02:43.53]Look out there she goes, she's gone,
[02:45.85]screamin' straight through Texas
[02:47.59]like a mad dog cyclone.