Long Train

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If you will listen a song i will 
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sing
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about my daddy who ran a log train
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way down in the southland in old 
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alabam
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we lived in a place that they 
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called chapman town

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Late in the evening when the sun 
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was low
way off in the distance you could 
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hear the train blow
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the folks would come running and 
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momma would sing
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get the supper on the table here 
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comes the log train

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every morning at the break of day
he'd grab his lunch bucket and be on
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 his way
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winter or summer, sunshine or rain
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every morning he'd run that old log
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 train

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a sweatin and swearin all day long
shoutin get up there oxens keep 
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movin along
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load 'er boys cause it looks like
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 rain
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i've got to get rollin this old log 
train

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this story happened a long time ago
the log train is silent, god called 
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dad to go
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but when i get to heaven to 
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always remain
i'll listen for the whistle on the 
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old log train