Letras
I watched my brother disappear the day the mountain slid
Company men said keep diggin' coal, there ain't no savin' the dead
Well, I lit this train from company town; the year was 1910
Oh, I reckoned I'd go some place where I could see him again
There ain't no railways in heaven
That's what I've been told
Just tryin' to keep this 2-10-0 fast enough
To keep runnin' out the cold
The engine reached a fever pitch as I headed down the line
Came around the curve in Knoxville when it was 1929
As the papers screamed about the stocks, revenuers broke my jars
They just fear for folks' safety, but they don't care if we starve
There ain't no railways in heaven
That's what I've been told
Just tryin' to keep this 2-10-0 fast enough
To keep runnin' out the cold
There ain't no railways in heaven
That's what they all say
Just tryin' to keep this 2-10-0 fast enough
To try to get away
By the time I reached Atlanta, it was 1993
And this new world it ain't got a place for laborers like me
But the bills kept on comin' as the factories all shut down
Then I got a paira cheap shoes and my family lost the house
There ain't no railways in heaven
That's what I've been told
Just tryin' to keep this 2-10-0 fast enough
To keep runnin' out the cold
I hit Jacksonville in 2010 runnin' out of steam
When suits sold me education as the secret to the dream
Then they made fun of my accent and how I held a fork
Graduated with a messa debt and not a licka work
There ain't no railways in heaven
That's what I've been told
Just tryin' to keep this 2-10-0 fast enough
To keep runnin' out the cold
There ain't no railways in heaven
That's what they all say
Just tryin' to keep this 2-10-0 fast enough
To try to get away
Oh, I reckon I'll go some place I can see him again