Gather round a corner, half a mile from here

See those long trains runnin and watch them disappear

Know I saw Mrs. Lucy down along the tracks

She lost her home and her family and she won't be comin'back

Got the Illinois Central and the Southern Central Freight

Got to keep on pushin'mama, you know they're runnin'late

Got the Illinois Central and the Southern Central Freight

Got to keep on pushin'mama, you know they're runnin'late

Well pistons keep on turnin and wheels go round and round

And steel rail black cold and hard and the miles as they go down

Oh, where would you be now ?