Daddy, What's a Train?-John Denver

[ti:Daddy, What's a Train?] [ar:John Denver] [al:All Aboard!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.12]Daddy what's a train Is it something I can ride [00:04.92]Does it carry lots of grown-up folks [00:07.67]And little kids inside [00:09.29]Is it bigger than our house Well how can I explain [00:13.85]When my little boy and girl ask me [00:16.65]Daddy what's a train [00:18.18] [00:19.87]When I was just a boy and living by the track [00:23.93]Us kids would gather up the coal in big ole gunnysacks [00:27.98]Then we heard the warning sound [00:30.54]As the train pulled into view [00:32.66]The engineer would smile [00:34.27]And wave as she went rolling through [00:38.34]She blew so loud and clear we had to cover up our ears [00:42.56]And we counted cars just as high as we could go [00:46.41] [00:47.10]I can almost hear the steam those big old drivers scream [00:51.73]A sound my little kids will never know [00:54.32] [00:56.26]Daddy what's a train Is it something I can ride [01:00.00]Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside [01:03.62] [01:04.40]Is it bigger than our house Well how can I explain [01:08.79]When my little boy and girl ask me Daddy what's a train [01:14.78]I guess the times have changed kids are different now [01:18.90]'Cause some don't even seem to know [01:21.21]That milk comes from a cow [01:23.33]My little boy can tell the names of all the baseball stars [01:27.79]I remember how we memorized [01:29.85]The names on railroad cars [01:33.33]The Wabash and the TP Lackawanna the IC [01:37.57]The Nichel-Plate and the good old Santa Fe [01:40.36] [01:41.98]Just names out of the past I guess they're fading fast [01:46.16]Every time I hear my little boy say [01:49.72] [01:51.03]Daddy what's a train Is it something I can ride [01:54.83]Does it carry lots of grown-up [01:56.95]Folks and little kids inside [01:58.26] [01:59.11]Is it bigger than our house Well [02:01.89]How can I explain [02:03.58]When my little boy and girl ask me Daddy what's a train [02:09.51]We climbed into the car drove down into town [02:13.95]Right up to the depot house but no one was around [02:18.24]We searched the yard together [02:20.17]For something I could show [02:22.29]But I knew there hadn't been a train [02:24.73]For a dozen years or so [02:27.29] [02:28.53]All the things I did when I was just a kid [02:32.53]How far away those memories appear [02:37.05]I guess it's plain to see they still mean a lot to me [02:41.34]'Cause my ambition was to be an engineer [02:46.22]Daddy what 's a train Is it something I can ride [02:49.98]Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside [02:54.34]Is it bigger than our house Well how can I explain [02:58.74]When my little boy and girl ask me 'Daddy what's a train