Daddy, What's A Train?
Words & Music by Bruce "U. Utah" Phillips
Sung By John Denver
on All Aboard! (1997)
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Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
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Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
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Is it bigger than our house? Well how can I explain
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When my little boy and girl ask me "Daddy what's a train?"
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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 big 'ole gunnysacks
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Then we heard the warning sound as the train pulled into view
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The engineer would smile and wave as she went rolling through
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She blew so loud and clear, we had to cover up our ears
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And we counted cars just as high as we could go
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I can almost hear the steam those big old drivers scream
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A sound my little kids will never know
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Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
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Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
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Is it bigger than our house? Well how can I explain
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When my little boy and girl ask me "Daddy what's a train?"
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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 the 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 I memorized the names on railroad cars
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The Wabash and the TP, Lackawanna, the IC
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The Nickel-Plate and the good old 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
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Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
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Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
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Is it bigger than our house? Well how can I explain
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When my little boy and girl ask me "Daddy what's a train?"
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We climbed into the car, drove down into town
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Right out the depot house, but no one was around
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We searched the yard togheter for something I could show
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But I know there hadn't been a train for a dozen years or so
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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 still mean a lot to me
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'Cause my ambition was to be an engineer
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Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
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Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
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Is it bigger than our house? Well how can I explain
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When my little boy and girl ask me "Daddy what's a train?"
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