Oil Tanker Train-Merle Haggard

[00:09.43]The oil tanker train from down on the river [00:14.19]In Southern Pacific and Santa Fe names [00:19.30]Would rumble and rattle the old boxcar we lived in [00:27.76]And I was a kid then and I loved that old train [00:36.51]Loaded with crude oil headed for town [00:40.82]The boxcar would tremble from the top to the ground [00:49.75]And my mother could feel it [00:52.08]Even before it came [00:55.44]"Get up son to the window [01:00.77]Here comes the oil train" [01:07.01]From my checkered past I can always bring back [01:12.11][02:15.86]The memories we felt in that home by the track [01:18.39][02:24.71]And all these years later [01:22.59][02:26.92]It's still stuck in my brain [01:28.31][02:32.49]Oh I loved that old oil tanker train [01:37.06]Dad worked for the railroad when I was a kid [01:41.61]And my fondest memories were things that he did [01:54.06]And early one Christmas [01:56.07]After Santa Claus came [02:02.10]There 'neath the tree ran a toy tanker train [02:11.13]From my checkered past [02:13.02]I can always bring back