Texas 1947-Guy Clark

[00:01.72]Now bein' six years old, I had seen some trains before, [00:05.53] [00:06.15]so it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for. [00:10.70]Trains are big and black and smokin' - steam screamin' at the wheels, [00:14.67] [00:15.86]bigger than anything they is, at least that's the way she feels [00:19.54] [00:20.05]Trains are big and black and smokin', louder'n July four, [00:24.28] [00:25.03]but everybody's actin' like this be might somethin' more. . . [00:29.01]. . .than just pickin' up the mail, or the soldiers from the war. [00:34.06]This is somethin' that even old man Wileman never seen before. [00:38.55]And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day. [00:42.64] [00:43.51]somethin' strange is goin' on, and we's all in the way. [00:47.44] [00:49.37]Well there's fifty or sixty people they're just sittin' on their cars, [00:53.25] [00:53.81]and the old men left their dominos and they come down from the bars. [00:57.86] [00:58.55]Everybody's checkin', old Jack Kittrel check his watch, [01:02.30] [01:03.05]and us kids put our ears to the rails to hear 'em pop. [01:06.98] [01:07.54]So we already knowed it, when they finally said 'train time' [01:12.25]you'd a-thought that Jesus Christ his-self was rollin' down the line. [01:16.18] [01:16.87]'Cause things got real quiet, momma jerked me back, [01:20.61] [01:21.55]But not before I'd got the chance to lay a nickel on the track. [01:25.36] [01:26.35]Look out here she comes, she's comin', [01:28.60]Look out there she goes, she's gone, [01:30.66]screamin' straight through Texas [01:32.78]like a mad dog cyclone. [01:34.46] [01:35.09]Big, red, and silver, [01:37.21]she don't make no smoke, [01:39.21]she's a fast-rollin' streamline [01:41.83]come to show the folks. [01:42.92] [01:43.99]Look out here she comes, she's comin' [01:46.36]Look out there she goes, she's gone, [01:48.54]screamin' straight through Texas [01:50.35]like a mad dog cyclone. [01:52.47]. . .Lord, she never even stopped. [02:02.63] [02:05.31]She left fifty or sixty people still sittin' on their cars, [02:09.06] [02:10.30]and they're wonderin' what it's comin' to [02:12.55]and how it got this far. [02:13.92] [02:14.49]Oh but me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime [02:18.16] [02:19.04]by a mad dog, runaway red-silver streamline. . . train [02:23.83] [02:24.63]Look out here she comes, she's comin', [02:25.94]Look out there she goes, she's gone, [02:28.13]screamin' straight through Texas [02:29.75]like a mad dog cyclone. [02:32.37]Big, red, and silver, [02:34.50]she don't make no smoke, [02:36.62]she's a fast-rollin' streamline [02:38.54] [02:39.23]come to show the folks. [02:41.11]Look out here she comes, she's comin' [02:43.53]Look out there she goes, she's gone, [02:45.85]screamin' straight through Texas [02:47.59]like a mad dog cyclone.