Grain Train

Lyrics

[Chorus] As I was going up from town I met the grain trains rolling down Every day, hundred trains Every train, hundred cars Every car, hundred tons Every ton, hundred sacks Every sack, ten thousand grains And that's what cities get from trains [Verse 1] Some politicians lacking brains Said in voices dripping sweet "We don't really need these trains Railroads all are obsolete Their union's strong it makes demands They guard their yards with railroad dicks Who kick our cops clean off their lands Do not like our politics" [Chorus] As I was going up from town I met the grain trains rolling down Every day, hundred trains Every train, hundred cars Every car, hundred tons Every ton, hundred sacks Every sack, tеn thousand grains And that's what cities get from trains [Verse 2] So the politicians passеd some laws To screw more money off the trains And deeper dip their pudgy paws In more control of railroad gains The railroad said, "Get off our land" They went on strike to show their peak The grain trains stopped their rolling and The cities starved within a week [Chorus] As I was going up from town I met the grain trains rolling down Every day, hundred trains Every train, hundred cars Every car, hundred tons Every ton, hundred sacks Every sack, ten thousand grains And that's what cities get from trains [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] Hunger riots burned and rose And battered down the statehouse door And all those fat politicos Were killed and eaten by the poor And with the city out of joint And no more politician men The railroad said they'd proved their point And sent the grain trains down again [Chorus] As I was going up from town I met the grain trains rolling down Every day, hundred trains Every train, hundred cars Every car, hundred tons Every ton, hundred sacks Every sack, ten thousand grains And that's what cities get from trains