Intro: Verse 1: Big black train coming down the track Blow your whistle long and long One minute you’re here Next minute you’re gone Verse 2: I lay my penny down on the rails As the summer wind sings its last song One minute you’re here Next minute you’re gone Baby baby baby I’m so alone Baby baby baby I’m coming home Verse 3: Autumn carnival on the edge of town We walk down the midway arm-in-arm One minute you’re here Next minute you’re gone Verse 4: I thought I knew just who I was And what I’d do but I was wrong One minute you’re here Next minute you’re gone Bridge: Red river running along the edge of town On the muddy banks I lay my body down This body down Outro Footsteps crackling on a gravel road Stars vanish in a sky as black as stone One minute you’re here Next minute you’re gone One minute you’re here Next minute you’re gone One minute you’re here