Railroad Knowledge Everyone Should Know

                                 Just a Time In the Past

Riley Lincoln

WPB FL

Nov 2011

When I'm gone will you

  Still hear Hank on a late

Moonlit night.  Will you

  Hear that old train

Whistle blow

  If you do, you will know

Somewhere I'm down the line

  And I'm doing fine

Just me and Waylon

  Sitting by the water tank

Singing "Your long gone Daddy

  Ain't a-coming back"

When you hear the cold wind blow

  Will you know me and Dylan is laid back

In the snow

  Our noses all aglow

Listen close, you can

  Hear the whiskey flow

Johnny Cash has been everywhere

  But he ain't been here

But he's on his way

  I can see that "Orange Blossom Special"

Plowing through the snow

   At about ten below

It's just a time in the past

  And it will always last

But don't go too fast

  The great trains will always be here

You can see them every night

  Around about midnight

When the stars shine really bright

  They are all here...

The Wabash Cannonball

   Night Train to Memphis

Old 97

  Tennessee #9

They are parked all around

  They are quiet with no sound

This is the graveyard

  Of old trains

The crews still live in the cab

  Gentle rain falls from the heavens

To keep them sparkling clean

  Most beautiful sight I ever seen

When I'm gone will you still hear Hank

  On a late moonlit night

Just a time in the past