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Rolling Western Union

Singles And Non Album Tracks

ROLLING WESTERN UNION

Year:  1970
Album:  None
Writers:  Elton John\ Bernie Taupin

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I've served upon this railroad for longer than I know

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My father and his father did the same thing long ago

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To keep the Western Union rolling down towards the sea

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The benefits of this great line built for you and me


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So Rolling Western Union, you can roll on to the sea

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Ten thousand miles of beatin' steel has made a man out of me

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In every state I've driven home a rivet with my hands

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Oh it's Rolling Western Union rolling onward, onward through our land


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It's friends of mine who died upon the building of this line

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Irishmen and Chinamen and some from the British Isles

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I've even seen the convicts come to work here for a while

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Before the law caught up with them and sent them back to trial

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I had a wife while on the job a hundred miles on back

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She died in Oklahoma and I laid her by the track

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All that's left is a wooden cross upright on a mound

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And every time the train rolls past, it rumbles in the ground

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Oh it's Rolling Western Union rolling onward, onward through our land


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