Elton John - Rolling Western Union 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's of this great line
Built for you and me

So rolling western union
You can roll on to the sea
Ten thousand miles of beatin' 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 onward
Onward through our land

It's friends of mine who died upon
The building of this line
Irishmen and chinamen and some
From the 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 to trial

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 upright on a mound
And every time the train rolls past
It rumbles in the ground