When I was young, I spent my summer days playin on the track.
The sound of the wheels rollin on the steel took me out, took me back.
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Big train from memphis, big train from memphis,
Now its gone gone gone, gone gone gone.
Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.
Each night I went to bed with the sound in my head, and the dream was a song.
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Well Ive rode em in and back out again - you know what they say about trains;
But Im tellin you when that memphis train came through,
This ol world was not the same.
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