Riding The Train With Mother
Taking the train to Williamson
Didn't happen often enough
Mother would take us once a year
To buy school clothes and stuff
She told the young ones to hunker down
So the ticket would only be half price
One or two would always forget
But the next time, they'd think twice
On every trip, I begged and pleaded
To let me go and see the caboose
I tried many times to get away
But Mother wouldn't turn me loose
The houses, people and gardens
Whizzed by as in a picture show
We each sat by a window
Our little faces all aglow
We loved the rattling of the wheels
And the whistle when it blew
The giant clouds of puffy smoke
And the tunnels we passed through
Our excursion was over far too soon
And we headed back to the station
Riding the train was a joyous thing
In the post-war generation
The trains are now streamlined and sleek
But you haven't lived until you've tried
A trip on an old fashioned passenger train
And the view of the countryside
Kathleen McCoy EldridgeŠ
May 16, 2006
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Song ~ "Freight Train" Sequenced by Gloria Canfield GlowCanPick
She told the young ones to hunker down
So the ticket would only be half price
One or two would always forget
But the next time, they'd think twice
