Daddy Whats A Train

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[Chorus]
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Daddy what's a train? Is it 
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something I can ride?
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Does it carry lots of grown-up 
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folks and little kids inside?
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Is it bigger than our house? Well, 
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how can I explain
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When my little boy and girl ask me 
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"Daddy what's a train?"

[Verse 1]
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When I was just a boy and living by 
the track
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Us kids would gather up the coal in
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 big old gunnysacks
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Then we heard the warning sound as 
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the train pulled into view
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The engineer would smile and wave 
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as she went rolling through

[Verse 2]
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She blew so loud and clear, we had
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 to cover up our ears
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And we counted cars just as high 
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as we could go
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I can almost hear the steam, those 
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big old drivers scream
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A sound my little kids will never 
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know

[Chorus]
D                         
Daddy what's a train? Is it 
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something I can ride?
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        D                          
Does it carry lots of grown-up 
      Em          A
folks and little kids inside?
      D                            
Is it bigger than our house? Well, 
G
how can I explain
        D                          
When my little boy and girl ask me 
 Em    A        D
"Daddy what's a train?"

[Verse 3]
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I guess the times have changed, kids
 are different now
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Cause some don't even seem to know 
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that milk comes from a cow
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My little boy can tell the names of 
all the baseball stars
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I remember how we memorized the 
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names on railroad cars

[Verse 4]
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The Wabash and the TP, Lackawanna, 
the IC
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The Nickel Plate and the good old 
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Santa Fe
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Just names out of the past, I guess 
they're fading fast
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Every time I hear my little boy say

[Chorus]
D                         
Daddy what's a train? Is it 
  G
something I can ride?
        D                          
Does it carry lots of grown-up 
      Em          A
folks and little kids inside?
      D                            
Is it bigger than our house? Well, 
G
how can I explain
        D                          
When my little boy and girl ask me 
 Em    A        D
"Daddy what's a train?"

[Verse 5]
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We climbed into the car, drove down 
into town
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Right up to the depot house, but 
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no one was around
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We searched the yard together for 
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something I could show
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But I knew there hadn't been a 
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train for a dozen years or so

[Verse 6]
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All the things I did when I was just
 a kid
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How far away those memories appear
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I guess it's plain to see they 
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still mean a lot to me
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Because my ambition was to be an 
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engineer

[Chorus]
D                         
Daddy what's a train? Is it 
  G
something I can ride?
        D                          
Does it carry lots of grown-up 
      Em           A
folks and little kids inside?
      D                            
Is it bigger than our house? Well, 
G
how can I explain
        D                          
When my little boy and girl ask me 
 Em    A        D
"Daddy what's a train?"