Tonalité : C major
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Verse 1
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Willie
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Sykes had one goal too,
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an Elgin watch and a Porter suit.
He hustled back for fifty years
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and worked the railroad line.
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From overalls and cotton fields,
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to spit shine shoes and rumbling steel.
His life was made to roll on rails
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that suited newly fine.
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His old Pat never got so far
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He's 20 miles from a sharecrop farm
While Hewley he's seen shooting stars
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From Denver up to Maine
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He loved the gentle rolling sway
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The sound a lonesome whistle made
He knew his calling from the day
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That he first saw a train
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Hewley was a railroad man
From Portland to Miami sand
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He knew that in this great big land
There's nothing like a train
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He'd tell the children stories
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how the rails were laid by hand
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They knew his name from coast to coast,
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knew he was a railroad man,
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knew he was a railroad man
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Spent his off days at the yard,
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knew he'd change in there by heart
They could have taken one apart,
but they never let him try
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He said, we all have a gift to you
Some drive the train,
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some shine the shoes
The engineer may get folks there,
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but me, I make them smile
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He always spoke about the time
Woodrow Wilson rode the line
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He tipped him twenty dollars gold
he carried till he died
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But he praised the Lord
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when someone laid a quarter in his hand
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Got put in here to ride the trains,
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Muley was a railroad man,
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Muley was a railroad man
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Julie spent his golden years
explaining throttles,
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wheels and gears to her taker for the train museum
at the Dallas County Fair.
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He'd tell you how the whistles blew,
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the engine roared and the cinders flew
When he got to heaven,
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he just knew they'd still
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be runnin' there
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Lived to be a hundred -four,
died in Fort Smith, Arkansas
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Laid the rest in his porter's cap,
a double eagle for his fare
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When I step off heaven's train,
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he'll have my bags in hand
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With a smile and a yes sir right on time,
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Muley was a railroad man,
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Muley was a railroad man
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Muley was a railroad man,
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Muley was a railroad man
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