Greenlight On The Southern-Tony Rice

[ti:Greenlight On The Southern] [ar:Tony Rice] [al:Me And My Guitar] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Greenlight On The Southern - Tony Rice [00:09.80]Standing on the sidetrack [00:11.65]At the south end of town [00:14.11]On a dry hot dusty August [00:16.21]Day the steam pipe pouring down [00:18.88]The fireman with his long oil [00:21.01]Can oiling the old valve gears [00:24.08]Waiting for the fast mail [00:25.61]Train to semaphore to clear [00:28.48] [00:30.37]The engineer in the old high cab [00:32.14]His gold watch in his hand [00:34.44]Looking at the water glass [00:36.49]And letting down the sand [00:39.14]Rolling out on the old [00:40.88]Main line taking up the slack [00:43.95]Gone today so they say [00:46.00]But tomorrow he'll be back [00:48.86] [00:49.41]Oh if I could return to [00:54.34]Those boyhood days of mine [00:58.88]And the greenlight on the [01:00.64]Southern southern railroad line [01:04.66] [01:27.51]Creeping down the rusty rails [01:29.34]Of the w**d grown branch line [01:31.96]The section houses gray and [01:33.73]White by the yard limit sign [01:36.19]The hoggers call the old high ball [01:38.63]No more time to wait [01:41.03]Rolling down to Birmingham [01:43.27]With a ten car load for freight [01:45.98] [01:46.52]Oh if I could return to [01:51.72]Those boyhood days of mine [01:54.97] [01:55.96]And the greenlight on the [01:57.62]Southern southern railroad line [02:01.41] [02:24.88]The whistle scream with a hiss of steam [02:26.94]The headlight gleams clear [02:28.55] [02:29.20]The drivers roll on the green [02:30.86]And go getting mighty near [02:33.93]Handing up the orders to [02:35.99]The engine crew on time [02:38.34]It's the Alabama great [02:39.72]Southern AGS railroad line [02:43.47] [02:44.05]Oh if I could return to [02:48.88]Those boyhood days of mine [02:52.51] [02:53.42]And that greenlight on [02:54.88]The southern southern railroad line [02:58.17] [02:59.10]Oh if I could return to [03:04.37]Those boyhood days of mine [03:07.98] [03:08.85]And that greenlight on [03:10.29]The southern southern railroad line