through the rain
across the fruited plain
rolls a rolling locomotive train

Red Cloud Nebraska
Blue Earth Minnesota
Grayville Illinois to Greenville Maine

Rueben takes
a rail from Devil's Lake
hops the Hiawatha in St. Paul

Sulfur, Oklahoma
El Dorado and La Plata
through Missouri like a cannonball

and it goes and goes
swiftly down the track
through the day that glows
to the night so black...blaack

near the pond in Voltage, Oregon
ends the line from Seneca to Burns

take the 180
north to Enterprise and Echo
twisting like Snake River as it turns

Newport News East St Louis blues
Vernal Utah buried under snow

Antlers Oklahoma
Armour South Dakota
Luna County in New Mexico

and it goes and goes
swiftly down the track
through the day that glows
to the night so black...blaack

through the rain
across the fruited plain
west from Crater Lake to Pantaloon

southbound to the stable
east to Abe and Able
northbound to the center of the moon

and it goes and goes
swiftly down the track
through the day that glows to the night so black...blaack