Struggle Jennings, Adam Calhoun - Old Train lyrics

There's a train on the mountain
Burnin' coal, runnin' fast
'Round the way I can hear it
As it's comin' on down the tracks
It's old burnin' strong, keeps movin' on
It shakes the leaves and the grass
The train is all black
Like the man from the past
The ghost of old Johnny Cash

Young man lookin' at his young hands
But the hands of time move
Faster than he understands
That time was long ago
Many winds down the road
The railroad couldn't hold
Ties that so many broke
Young man shovels all the coal in the stove
And the leaves change colors when
The breath in the smoke
And the steel cuts through the
Prairies and the stones
The mans eyes are weary and
He's so far from home
The train shakes the ground you
Can hear it from afar the coal burns bright
You can see it like the stars
The moonlight shines like the
Headlights from cars it howls out at night
Like the man out at bars
Now these old timers pass
Hard as coal it's all black
Like the man Johnny Cash
Put his soul in these tracks
And it rolls off the tracks
Whistle blow when it pass
Can't control it so fast
He just hopes he don't crash

There's a train on the mountain
Burnin' coal, runnin' fast
'Round the way I can hear it
As it's comin' on down the tracks
It's old burnin' strong, keeps movin' on
It shakes the leaves and the grass (Ha ha)
The train is all black
Like the man from the past
The ghost of old Johnny Cash (Struggle)

Certain prayers were never spoken
I was too ashamed to ever ask him
Started baskin' while my love
Was keep on passin'
I don't have enough cash to get
'em out of their bind
Try to bring a little light to
Lead 'em out of the blind
Hard to find peace when boys
All you've ever known
Hard to find a trains path
When these tracks are overgrown
And they're home to the snakes, layin
Lookin' for their opportunity
To uproot every seed that I had sewn
They throw in the key and strip
His kids from their only home
Lonely and alone
Behind walls I tore down every stone
That I had ever hid behind
Rocky path like Stallone
The underdog will get the
They climb and claim it's the time
Diggin', grindin' up the mountain
Flag flies this is mine
Won't be dead get in line
Your side of the fence has been defined
At the cross roads where life
And death are intertwined
Singin' to the man in black
So long my clemintine

There's a train on the mountain
Burnin' coal, runnin' fast
'Round the way I can hear it
As it's comin' on down the tracks
It's old burnin' strong, keeps movin' on
It shakes the leaves and the grass
The train is all black
Like the man from the past
The ghost of old Johnny Cash