Being six years old,
I had seen some trains before
So it's hard to figure out
what I'm at the depot for
Trains are big and black and smoking,
steam screaming at the wheels
Bigger than anything there is,
at least that's the way she feels
Trains are big and black and smoking,
loud on July 4th
And everybody's acting like this
might be something more
More than just picking up the mail
Other soldiers from the war
There's something even old man
Wyman never seen before
It's a late afternoon
on a hot Texas day
Some strange is going on,
we's all in the way
There's 50,
60 people left sitting on their cars
The old men left their dominoes
and come down from the bars
Everybody's checkin'
Old Jack Kittrell checks his watch
Us kids put our ears to the rails
to hear him pop
We all already know that
They finally said train time
We thought that Jesus Christ himself
was rollin' down the line
But things got real wild
Mama jerked me back
But not before I got a chance
to lay nickel on the track
Look out, here she comes,
she's comin'
Look out, there she goes,
she's gone
Screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog cyclone
Big and red and silver,
she don't make no smoke
She's a fast rollin' streamline
comin' to show the folks
I said, look out, here she comes,
she's comin'
Look out, there she goes,
she's gone
Screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog cyclone
She left 50, 60 people
sitting on the cars
Wondering what's coming to
and how it got this far
Aw, but me,
I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime
By a mad dog runaway
red silver streamlined train
Look out, here she comes, she's coming
Look out, there she goes,
she's gone
Screaming straight through Texas
like mad dogs
Cyclone, big and red and silver,
she don't make no smoke
She's a fast rollin' streamline
comin' showin' folks
I said, look out, here she comes,
she's comin'
Look out, there she goes,
she's gone
Screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog
Cyclone,
look out, here she comes,
she's comin'
Look out, there she goes,
she's gone
Screamin' straight through Texas
like a mad dog
Cyclone