E5 G5 Now bein' six years old I'd seen some trains before A5 B5 E5 So it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for. E5 G5 Trains are big and black and smokin' steam , screamin' at the wheels A5 B5 E5 Louder than anything there is, at least that's the way she feels B5 Trains are big and black and smokin', louder than July fourth A5 B5 E5 Everybody's actin' like this might be somethin' more E5 G5 Than just pickin' up the mail or the soldiers from the war A5 B5 E5 Even somethin' that even old man Wileman's never seen before BRIDGE: F#5 And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day A5 B5 Somethin' strange was goin' on and we's all in the way Well there's fifty or sixty people just sittin' on their cars And the old men left their dominoes and they come down from the bars Everybody's checkin', old Jack Kittrel checked 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 himself was rollin' down the line Cuz things got real quiet, Momma jerked me back Not before I'd got the chance to lay a nickel on the track E5 Look out here she comes, she's comin' A5 Look out there she goes, she's gone B5 A5 E5 Screamin' straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone B5 Big an red, and silver, Lord, she don't make no smoke A5 B5 E5 She's a fast-rollin' streamline come to show the folks E5 Said look out here she comes, she's comin' A5 Look out there she goes, she's gone B5 A5 E5 Screamin' straight through Texas like a mad dog cyclone Lord, she never even stopped She left fifty, sixty people still sittin' on their cars Wonderin' what it's comin' to and how it got this far Me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime By a mad dog, runaway red-silver streamline train Chorus
