Bringin' My Daddy Home Again
Doug & Telisha Williams ©2005

My daddy was born the tenth of fifteen
in a two room shotgun shack
built out of an old freighter car
down by the railroad tracks
His daddy was a drinkin' man
God rest his soul in Hell
he kept my granny pregnant
till the day he finally fell

Chorus
And I hear that whistle blowin
as she's commin' round the bend
That Norfolk Southern railroad
Bringin' my daddy home again

When I was a little girl
my daddy'd ride that train
down to Winston Salem
then he'd ride it back again
Well he may not have been around so much
'cause he was always on that train
But ever since he was a little bitty boy
he had that coal dust in his veins

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A hundred thousand tons of coal
and a lifetime full of pain
my daddy made his livin'
he sold his soul to that train
A few years back he had a heart attack
he don't ride that train no more
but he still goes to the window
to hear that locomotive roar

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You can ride truck on down the road
you can fly in a aero-plane
there ain't nothing in this world
like a mighty railroad train
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