DADDY LOVED TRAINS

(Keith Whitley)





Daddy Didn't see me take my first steps as a child

The railroad had him haulin' cows through Texas at the time

The night I kicked a field goal at the big homecomin' game

Dad was kickin' hobos off another damned ol' train



Mama did her best to do it all when Dad was gone

And every night she'd swear he'd really rather be at home

Sometimes we'd believe her 'til we'd look in Daddy's eyes

He'd have that faraway look he never could disguise



(CHORUS)

Mama loved Daddy but Daddy loved trains

The steel rails controlled him like whiskey in his veins

Number two diesel fuel flowed through his veins

Mama loved Daddy but Daddy loved trains





Now that I've grown older there's some things I understand

It takes a special person to love that kind of man

In ways I guess I'm different but in way's I'm just the same

I've grown to love somebody like my daddy loved those trains



(repeat CHORUS twice)