Everytime I hear the lonesome whistle whine

From a lonesome locomotive, comin down the line

It carries me back to another place in time

When train travelin across the land was the only way to fly



Am I a fool to think it glamorous

Box-Carring like a hobo, it must have been rough

But a simple way of life is what it really means to me

When we weren't so dependent on money to be free



I hear you train, are you travelin my way

Won't you let me ride your rails right back to yesterday

Who knows what I could see from that ole time machine

But there you go again train travelin, 

There you go again train travelin



I'm lying on a rotten wooden floor

Smell yesterday's whiskey here rattlin' at the door

A railroad man lookin' for me, I'm scared as I can be

I open my eyes and realize it's just another dream



I hear you train, are you travelin my way

Won't you let me ride your rails right back to yesterday

Who knows what I could see from that ole time machine

But there you go again train travelin, 

There you go again train travelin



I hear you train, are you travelin my way

Won't you let me ride your rails right back to yesterday

Who knows what I could see from that ole time machine

But there you go again train travelin, 

There you go again train travelin



But there you go again train travelin

There you go again train travelin