Adam Calhoun and Struggle Jennings - Old Train

There's a train on the mountain

Burnin' coal, runnin' fast

'Round the way I can hear it

As it's comin' on down the tracks

It's old burnin' strong, keeps movin' on

It shakes the leaves and the grass

The train is all black, like the man from the past

The ghost of old Johnny Cash


Young man lookin' at his young hands

But the hands of time move faster than he understands

That time was long ago, many winds down the road

The railroad couldn't hold, ties that so many broke

Young man shovels all the coal in the stove

And the leaves change colors when the breath in the smoke

And the steel cuts through the prairies and the stones

The mans eyes are weary and he's so far from home

The train shakes the ground you can hear it from afar

The coal burns bright, you can see it like the stars

The moonlight shines like the headlights from cars

It howls out at night, like the man out at bars

Now these old timers pass, hard as coal it's all black

Like the man Johnny Cash, put his soul in these tracks

And it rolls off the tracks, whistle blow when it pass

Can't control it so fast, he just hopes he don't crash


There's a train on the mountain

Burnin' coal, runnin' fast

'Round the way I can hear it

As it's comin' on down the tracks

It's old burnin' strong, keeps movin' on

It shakes the leaves and the grass (Ha ha)

The train is all black, like the man from the past

The ghost of old Johnny Cash (Struggle)


Certain prayers were never spoken, I was too ashamed to ever ask him

Started baskin' [?] while my love was keep on passin'

I don't have enough cash to get 'em out of their bind

Try to bring a little light to lead 'em out of the blind

Hard to find peace when boys all you've ever known

Hard to find a trains path when these tracks are overgrown

And they're home to the snakes, layin, lookin' for their opportunity

To uproot every seed that I had sewn

They throw in the key and strip his kids from their only home

Lonely and alone, behind walls I tore down every stone

That I had ever hid behind, rocky path like Stallone

The underdog will get the [?]

They climb and claim it's the time

Diggin', grindin' up the mountain

Flag flies this is mine

Won't be dead get in line, your side of the fence has been defined

At the cross roads where life and death are intertwined

Singin' to the man in black, so long my clemintine


There's a train on the mountain

Burnin' coal, runnin' fast

'Round the way I can hear it

As it's comin' on down the tracks

It's old burnin' strong, keeps movin' on

It shakes the leaves and the grass

The train is all black, like the man from the past

The ghost of old Johnny Cash

Written by:
Adam Calhoun, William Harness

Publisher:
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