That's that fast special streamline leaving outta memphis
Tennessee going into New Orleans
She running so fast the hobos don't fool with this train
They stand on the track with their hat in their hands
I had a friend girl that morning was catching that train
She got up singing this song
Hey dad I'm sorry to leave my home
Mm mm mm
Lord lord lord lordy
She heard that eight o'clock thirty local blowing that morning
She hadn't rid the train in a good while
She thought it'd have that special streamline
She heard at eight o'clock thirty local when she's coming to the line
Declared up for that streamline blowing like this
She said daddy is that my train
I say I ain't keeping up with the train time
I'm tryin a make a few dimes
She dropped her head went to singing an crying
It's alright how you turn me down
Mm mm mm
I ain't got a dime
After she called for a ticket
She heard this special streamline going thirty three miles from
Tennessee make ya lonesome now
Cause I hobo myself sometimes
Man asks her where the other train
She told him she didn't know
If she heard a bell she could tell him all about it
As she dropped over that hill
And stopped off in the valley
She heard the bell begin to toll like this
Make a sound like a church bell toll
Before she got to that ten mile tunnel
She blowed and throw'd on the airbrakes
Airbrakes
When she got to that ten mile tunnel
She was getting close
She was tippin cars on automatic switch
Getting her water and coal on the fly
You could hear her when she was striking that double iron like this
When she run cross the last one
She squalled in
This girl looked out an seen that train
She commenced to singing an crying
Hey dad I don't wanna leave
Mm mm
I believe I'll lose my mind
When that train got a little closer down to New Orleans
She went around that curve
You would hear her when she's blowing like this
The people's always standing at the station
Lying there to see that train come in
You would hear her when she squalls
