Texas 1947-Guy Clark

[ti:Texas 1947] [ar:Guy Clark] [al:The Essential Guy Clark] [by:] [offset:500] [00:00.00]Texas 1947 - Guy Clark [00:01.72]Now bein' six years old I had seen some trains before [00:05.53] [00:06.15]So it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for [00:10.70]Trains are big and black and smokin' - steam screamin' at the wheels [00:14.67] [00:15.86]Bigger than anything they is at least that's the way she feels [00:19.54] [00:20.05]Trains are big and black and smokin' louder'n July four [00:24.28] [00:25.03]But everybody's actin' like this might be somethin' more [00:29.01] than just pickin' up the mail or the soldiers from the war [00:34.06]This is somethin' that even old man Wileman never seen before [00:38.55]And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day [00:42.64] [00:43.51]Somethin' strange is goin' on and we's all in the way [00:47.44] [00:49.37]Well there's fifty or sixty people they're just sittin' on their cars [00:53.25] [00:53.81]And the old men left their dominos and they come down from the bars [00:57.86] [00:58.55]Everybody's checkin' old Jack Kittrel check his watch [01:02.30] [01:03.05]And us kids put our ears to the rails to hear 'em pop [01:06.98] [01:07.54]So we already knowed it when they finally said 'train time' [01:12.25]You'd a-thought that Jesus Christ his-self was rollin' down the line [01:16.18] [01:16.87]'Cause things got real quiet momma jerked me back [01:20.61] [01:21.55]But not before I'd got the chance to lay a nickel on the track [01:25.36] [01:26.35]Look out here she comes she's comin' [01:28.60]Look out there she goes she's gone [01:30.66]Screamin' straight through Texas [01:32.78]Like a mad dog cyclone [01:34.46] [01:35.09]Big red and silver [01:37.21]She don't make no smoke [01:39.21]She's a fast-rollin' streamline [01:41.83]Come to show the folks [01:42.92] [01:43.99]Look out here she comes she's comin' [01:46.36]Look out there she goes she's gone [01:48.54]Screamin' straight through Texas [01:50.35]Like a mad dog cyclone [01:52.47] Lord she never even stopped [02:02.63] [02:05.31]She left fifty or sixty people still sittin' on their cars [02:09.06] [02:10.30]And they're wonderin' what it's comin' to [02:12.55]And how it got this far [02:13.92] [02:14.49]Oh but me I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime [02:18.16] [02:19.04]By a mad dog runaway red-silver streamline train [02:23.83] [02:24.63]Look out here she comes she's comin' [02:25.94]Look out there she goes she's gone [02:28.13]Screamin' straight through Texas [02:29.75]Like a mad dog cyclone [02:32.37]Big red and silver [02:34.50]She don't make no smoke [02:36.62]She's a fast-rollin' streamline [02:38.54] [02:39.23]Come to show the folks [02:41.11]Look out here she comes she's comin' [02:43.53]Look out there she goes she's gone [02:45.85]Screamin' straight through Texas [02:47.59]Like a mad dog cyclone