Texas 1947
Johnny Cash Lyrics
Texas 1947 Lyrics
Texas 1947 by Johnny Cash
So it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for
Things're big and black and smokin' steam screamin' at the wheels
Bigger'n anything there is last that's the way she feels
Trains're big and black and smokin' louder'n July 4th
But everybody's actin' like this might be something more
Than just pickin' up the mail or the soldiers from the war
Somethin' even old man Wileman's never seen before
And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day
Somethin' strange was goin' on and we's all in the way
There are 50 or 60 people just sittin' on their cars
And the ole men left their domioes and come down from the bars
And everybody's checkin' old Jack Kittrell checks his watch
And us kids put our ears to the rails to hear 'em pop
So we already knowed it when they finally said train time
You'd've thought that Judgement Day was rollin' down the line
Cause things got real quiet and mama jerked me back
But not vbefore I get the chance to lay a 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 lay no smoke
She's a fast rollin' streamline come 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
[ guitar ]
Lord she never even stopped
She left 50 or 60 people still sittin' on their cars
Wonderin' what it's comin' to and how it got this far
And me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime
By a mad dog runaway red silver streamline train
Look out here she comes...
Look out here she comes...
Popular Johnny Cash Songs
Wednesday car
The Rambler album Flushed from the bathroom of your heart
At Folsom Prison album When i take my vacation in heaven
Gospel Collection album One and one makes two
Children'S Album album At the cross
Precious Memories album Folsom prison blues
Sunday Morning Coming Down album God's gonna cut you down
American V: A Hundred Highways album I got a boy (and his name is john)
Children'S Album album You and me
Gone Girl album There ain't no good chain gang
My Mother'S Hymn Book album Goin by the book
The Mystery Of Life album MORE ›
The Rambler album Flushed from the bathroom of your heart
At Folsom Prison album When i take my vacation in heaven
Gospel Collection album One and one makes two
Children'S Album album At the cross
Precious Memories album Folsom prison blues
Sunday Morning Coming Down album God's gonna cut you down
American V: A Hundred Highways album I got a boy (and his name is john)
Children'S Album album You and me
Gone Girl album There ain't no good chain gang
My Mother'S Hymn Book album Goin by the book
The Mystery Of Life album MORE ›
A-Z Lyrics Universe
Lyrics / song texts are property and copyright of their owners and provided for educational purposes.