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[QUOTE]Originally posted by RRRICH: [QB] Sojourner - here are the lyrics to the Guy Clark song "Texas 1947" -- it is actually more of a "recitative" and the words are more spoken than sung (except for the chorus) -- I'm sure you've heard it somewhere....... Now bein' six years old, I had seen some trains before, so it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for. Trains are big and black and smokin' - steam screamin' at the wheels, bigger than anything they is, at least that's the way she feels Trains are big and black and smokin', louder'n July four, but everybody's actin' like this might be somethin' more. . . . . .than just pickin' up the mail, or the soldiers from the war. This is somethin' that even old man Wileman never seen before. And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day. somethin' strange is goin' on, and we's all in the way. Well there's fifty or sixty people they're just sittin' on their cars, and the old men left their dominos and they come down from the bars. Everybody's checkin', old Jack Kittrel check his watch, and us kids put our ears to the rails to hear 'em pop. So we already knowed it, when they finally said 'train time' you'd a-thought that Jesus Christ his-self was rollin' down the line. 'Cause things got real quiet, momma jerked me back, But not before I'd got the chance to lay a nickel on the track. Chorus Look out here she comes, she's comin', Look out there she goes, she's gone, screamin' straight through Texas like a mad *** cyclone. Big, red, and silver, she don't make no smoke, she's a fast-rollin' streamline come to show the folks. Look out here she comes, she's comin' Look out there she goes, she's gone, screamin' straight through Texas like a mad *** cyclone. . . .Lord, she never even stopped. She left fifty or sixty people still sittin' on their cars, and they're wonderin' what it's comin' to and how it got this far. Oh but me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime by a mad ***, runaway red-silver streamline. . . train Chorus NOTE: "***" is Train Web-ease for a...canine! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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