The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home

	  		
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Come along, my dear, the time is growing near. 
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We'll have to walk down where the field is overgrown. 
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Consumption's claimed his life and we dare not miss the sight 
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Of the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home. 

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Well, we had some hard times these last few years, 
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Lost the farm, almost lost our spirits, too. 
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Yeah, but it's the strangest thing; when we heard that man sing, 
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Oh, we knew somehow we'd make it through. 
  
 
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I can hear that whistle blow; that old train's a-movin' slow. 
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Sounds like it's cryin' for that singing brakeman, too. 
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Back to the sunny south he'll go, and he'll never roam no more, 
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Here's the train, oh hold me close, oh, sweetheart, do.
 


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Come here, my little one,  let me hold you up. 
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Want you to remember this day when you are grown, 
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How your mama and your dad were so proud and so sad 
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Watching the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home. 

Chorus 

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There goes the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home. 
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Oh-de-lay-ee, Ay-dee, oh- oo