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<\/p>\nEditor\u2019s Note: We drift into the 4th of July weekend today. It is a holiday many of us remember. It celebrates the history we used to know. I think of that family, swinging hammers, who helped build the railroad that runs by The Farm in 1858. It is pretty cool to hear the whistle in the morning, and the rumble of the rail. <\/p>\n
– Vic<\/p>\n
Author’s note: We took trains long before we learned to fly. Here in Savannah, we are daily serenaded by nearby train whistles and rail crossing clickety clacks.<\/p>\n
W and I are headed for a December week in the Big Apple. We’re going to take the train.<\/p>\n
– Marlow<\/p>\n
Yeah, we\u2019re goin’ back, goin’ back to find a simpler place in time on a midnight train from Georgia. We\u2019re gonna once again live in its old-world times and leave behind friendless plague times. So we’re gonna take a sleeper car (woo woo woo) for city life we once knew. Yeah, we’re goin’ back to find a simpler yet livelier place one more time.<\/p>\n
A-whooee-ah-whooee ol’ clickety-clack’s a-echoin’ back the blues in the night says the song. <\/p>\n
-Marlow<\/p>\n
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Been a long time since most have seen or heard a train
\nAt Savannah’s crossings, they’re friends so we don’t complain
\nSlow rolling makes us stop our texting to the sky
\nKids once again, we look and ask what’s rolling to where and why <\/p>\n
Steel wheels waking up the night
\nWhistled crossings with bright red flashing light
\nIt’s time we rode that Highball number 8 line
\nBefore we and Amtrak run outta time <\/p>\n
Gonna stare out the window while drinking whiskey
\nGotta bring enough, a 15-hour ride goes by briskly
\nHopefully the dining car will be serving us well
\nWanna hear the ring of dinner and breakfast bells <\/p>\n
Younger days are long since gone
\nBut America’s trains still chug along
\nBooked us a December New York ticket to a yesterday
\nPalmetto Highball number 8 gonna take us away
\nGonna ride that line, to another time, if only in our mind <\/p>\n
America’s beautiful from the windows of a train
\nI put a penny on the tracks to flatten into a copper plane
\nIt’s been too long since I heard the onboard sounds of a train
\nGotta do it one more time before we run outta time <\/p>\n
We built lines to western gold mines, shipped Dixie cotton to the heart of Yankeeland
\nScotch Irish folk worked long and hard to lay tracks through steep mountain passes
\nSo, politicians could ride and campaign while they lounged in first class on their asses <\/p>\n
Movies made me dream about robbing trains of gold
\nWhen I heard the whistles blow
\nThen I thought there’d be prison bars
\nFor robbing them railroad cars
\nSo, I put my pennies on the tracks
\nSmiled and laughed while they got click clacked <\/p>\n
Younger days are long since gone
\nBut America’s trains still chug along
\nBooked us a December New York ticket to a yesterday
\nPalmetto Highball number 8 gonna take us away
\nGonna ride that line, to another time, even if it’s only in our mind <\/p>\n
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