Log Train

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If you will listen a song i will sing 
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about my daddy who ran a log train 
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way down in the southland in old alabam 
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we lived in a place that they called chapman town 
 
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Late in the evening when the sun was low 
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way off in the distance you could hear the train blow 
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the folks would come running and momma would sing 
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get the supper on the table here comes the log train 
 
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every morning at the break of day 
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he'd grab his lunch bucket and be on his way 
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winter or summer, sunshine or rain 
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every morning he'd run that old log train 
 
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a sweatin and swearin all day long 
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shoutin get up there oxens keep movin along 
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load 'er boys cause it looks like rain 
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i've got to get rollin this old log train 
 
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this story happened a long time ago 
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the log train is silent, god called dad to go 
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but when i get to heaven to always remain 
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i'll listen for the whistle on the old log train