Bluegrass song about the disappearing railroads...
Country & Bluegrass Songwriter
Traditional/Classic Country, Country and Western, Bluegrass, "new-grass" songwriter, co-writing successfully with artists from Nashville to Norfolk to Nacogdoches... BMI affilitated...
Story behind the song
Tells itself... but based on recollections and reality...
Lyrics
A & WP
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We always waved when the train rolled through...
It seemed the neighborly thing to do;
The engineer always waved right back...
Before disappearing down the track.
A & WP, you're just a memory,
Rolling through my mind, like the days you left behind, Oh...
A & WP, you're just a memory,
Rolling through my mind, like the days you left behind,
We put our pennies on the rail...
When we heard that lonesome whistle wail;
We picked 'em ul all shiny and flat;
Amazed the train could do all that...
A & WP, you're just a memory,
Rolling through my mind, like the days you left behind,
A & WP, you're just a memory,
Rolling through my mind, like the days you left behind,
The tressle stood since nineteen-ten...
The train won't pass through here again;
The depot's now a new cafe...
That tries to recall that long lost day...
A & WP, you're just a memory,
Rolling through my mind, like the days you left behind,
A & WP, you're just a memory,
Rolling through my mind, like the days you left behind,
