by Bob Dylan<br />
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Sad I'm sittin' on the railroad track,<br />
Watchin' that old smokestack.<br />
Train is a-leavin' bit it won't be back.<br />
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Years ago we hung around,<br />
Watchin' trains roll through the town.<br />
Now that train is a-graveyard bound.<br />
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Where we go up in that North Country,<br />
Lakes and streams and mines so free,<br />
I had no better friend than he.<br />
<br />
Something happened to him that day,<br />
I thought I heard a stranger say,<br />
I hung my head and stole away.<br />
<br />
A diesel truck was rollin' slow,<br />
Pullin' down a heavy load.<br />
It left him on a Utah road.<br />
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They carried him back to his home town,<br />
His mother cried, his sister moaned,<br />
Listin' to them church bells tone.
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