Lyrics

I've served upon this railroad for longer than I know My father and his father did the same thing long ago To keep the Western Union rolling down towards the sea The benefit of this great line is built for you and me (Chorus) So Rolling Western Union, you can roll on to the sea Ten thousand miles of beaten steel has made a man out of me In every state I've driven home a rivet with my hands Oh it's Rolling Western Union rolling onwards, onwards through our land It's friends of mine who died upon the building of this linе Irishmen and Chinamen and some from thе British Isles I've even seen the convicts come to work here for a while Before the law caught up with them and sent them back for trial (Repeat Chorus) I had a wife while on the job a hundred miles on back She died in Oklahoma and I laid her by the track All that's left is a wooden cross stood upright on a mound And every time the train rolls past, it rumbles, rumbles in the ground (Repeat Chorus)