When i was young,
i spent my summer days
playin' on the track.
the sound of the wheels rollin'
oon the steel took me out, took me back.
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big train from memphis,
big train from memphis,
now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone.
Like no one before,
he let out a roar,
and i just had to tag along.
each night i went to bed
with the sound in my head,
and the dream was a song.
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Well i've rode 'em in
and back out again
you know what they say about trains;
but i'm tellin' you when
that memphis train came through,
this ol' world was not the same.
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