The Original, Original Honky Tonk Night Train Blues-Julie Covington

[00:02.60]I'm the original honky tonk train [00:10.85]I'm the one that you see [00:11.81]When you're watching a western [00:14.65]That's me chugging by [00:18.07]Of the ones that you see in the films I'm the best [00:20.91]I’ll tell you why [00:21.76]Cause no other loco can ever compare [00:23.45]With the places I’ve been 'cause I’ve been everywhere [00:25.58]And I never once stopped for a moment of resting [00:28.10]And if my fire's burning properly the hot air oughta [00:34.03]Rise and go along a lot of tubes [00:37.09]That are surrounded by water [00:40.85]In the boiler till eventually it moves [00:44.33]On down the engine's aorta [00:48.00]Out to the funnel where the cloud of smoke exudes [00:51.65]And now the hot air in the tubes has made [00:53.98]The water in the boiler turn to steam hot hot hot [00:59.54]The steam also rises and collects inside [01:01.89]That large symbolic dome at the top [01:04.81]Top top [01:06.32]But if you think that now the steam is [01:08.41]Just as hot as it is gonna get you're wrong [01:11.00]Cause it's not not not [01:13.44]Because this is where the driver opens up [01:17.58]The regulator valve handle [01:21.05]The steam becomes alive again [01:24.85]And goes back through the boiler or can [01:28.54]Which I call it only [01:30.67]Cause I’ve a shortage of rhymes ending in an [01:36.14]So having been through the superheater tubes [01:38.43]The steam is hotter than ever [01:40.29]It was before the heat is more [01:42.05]You may be sure the steam now [01:43.96]Passes on into the piston cylinder [01:47.29]And pushes the piston for [01:50.73]Wards and backwards by means of valves [01:52.65]Which reciprocate in alternation [01:54.32]According to simple mechanical law [01:57.88]The piston then pushes connecting [02:00.86]Rods fixed to the wheels [02:03.10]That are set on the rails [02:05.12]But that's not the end of the story [02:07.86]Cause then all that steam [02:10.37]As you will have seen [02:12.15]Is blown out as exhaust [02:13.71]Through the funnel whence it can expire [02:16.92]Thereby increasing the draught of the fire [02:19.27]So now apart from some rather superfluous detail [02:21.53]Which doubtless will seem to you [02:22.79]Obvious hardly worth saying [02:25.69]The story's over in its basic essentials [02:28.82]The rest is merely overlaying [02:33.07]What you can see for yourself quite easily [02:35.23]Although I would just like to mention the [02:37.47]Thing on the front that always comes in handy [02:39.46]When you want to catch cows