Long Train

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If you will listen a song i will sing
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about my daddy who ran a log train
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way down in the southland in old alabam
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we lived in a place that they called chapman town

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Late in the evening when the sun was low
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way off in the distance you could hear the train blow
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the folks would come running and momma would sing
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get the supper on the table here comes the log train

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every morning at the break of day
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he'd grab his lunch bucket and be on his way
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winter or summer, sunshine or rain
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every morning he'd run that old log train

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a sweatin and swearin all day long
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shoutin get up there oxens keep movin along
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load 'er boys cause it looks like rain
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i've got to get rollin this old log train

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this story happened a long time ago
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the log train is silent, god called dad to go
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but when i get to heaven to always remain
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i'll listen for the whistle on the old log train