On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe

	  		
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Do you hear that whistle down the line 
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 I   figure that it's engine number forty nine 
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She's the only one that 'll sound that way 
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On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe All aboard, she's on her way 
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See the old smoke risin'    round the bend 
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I  reck on that she knows she's gonna meet a friend 
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Folks around these parts kept the time of day 
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From the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe  

Bridge one 
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Heres he comes  whoo whoo oow hoo oow hoow hoow hoo  
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Hey, Jim, ya better get therig 
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Oow hoo whoo oow hoo whoo whoo 
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She's got a list of passengers that's mighty big  
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And they'll all want lifts to Brown's Hotel  
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'Cause lot soft hem been travelin'    for quite a spell 
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All the way from Philadelph eye aye 
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On the Atchis on, Topeka    and the Santa Fe  
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Back in Ohio     where I come from 
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I've done a lot of dreamin' and I've travell'd  some  
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But I never thought I'd see the day 
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When I ever took a ride on the Santa Fe  
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I would lean across my window sill 
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And hear the whistle echoin'  across the hill 
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Then I'd watch the light still they fade away 
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On theAtchison, Topeka    and the Santa Fe 

Bridge two 
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What a thrill with the whe elsa singin' "west ward ho"  
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From the day I heard them start  
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'Cross the Kansas plains from New Mexico 
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I guess I've got a little gypsy    in my heart 
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When I'm old and grey and set tled down 
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If I ever get a chance to sneak away from town 
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Then I'll spend my busman's holiday 
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On the Atchison, Topeka    and the Santa Fe