Just started recording the "Train Stories" CD and still looking for more stories. Here are the lyrics to "Engine 49". I'll start posting the songs as the final mix is completed.
Engine 49
I grew up in a sawmill town
Just a whistle stop on the CPR
Freight trains highballing in the night
Rattling around this boy’s dreams
My grandfather Nan was a watchman
He worked for the lumber mill
Near the railway line
He’d take me on his rounds
And tell me stories
About his trains, horses
And engine 49
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 always on time
Instrumental
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 always on time
That was a long long time ago
I still see that old engine in my mind
She’s left behind
Memories from another time
You’ll find her now
In some town down this
Railway line
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 always on time.
Engine 49
I grew up in a sawmill town
Just a whistle stop on the CPR
Freight trains highballing in the night
Rattling around this boy’s dreams
My grandfather Nan was a watchman
He worked for the lumber mill
Near the railway line
He’d take me on his rounds
And tell me stories
About his trains, horses
And engine 49
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 always on time
Instrumental
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 always on time
That was a long long time ago
I still see that old engine in my mind
She’s left behind
Memories from another time
You’ll find her now
In some town down this
Railway line
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 coming down that line
Old 49 always on time.