My Love Affair With Trains
By Merle Haggard
Written by Dolly Parton
Album: My Love Affair With Trains (1976)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
11/14/2016

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Everytime I hear the sound of a train comin' down that railroad track, I get that faraway look in my eyes
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And I'd like to throw my hammer down and take off to some distant town and not even take the time to say goodbye
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I've got to think about my babies, about my job and my old lady and how much she'd miss me if I's gone
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And I love them more than anything but I got this feeling near by trains and some other wish I's on that train and gone


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But that train keeps a rolling down the track
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Bringing my old mem'ries back
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Making hobo blood ball in my veins
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Reviving my old love affair with trains


The nights ain't never long enough my wife keeps sayin' you get up for you'll be late to work and miss your ride
I grab my dinner bucket up and jump on the back of your pickup truck and I wonder if I'll jump that train tonight.
And it wasn't long ago that I was free to jump that train and ride but I gave it up to be a family man
And I don't suppose I'll ever go but when I hear that whistle blow, I think of my old love affair again

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