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Mr engineer won’t you please stop that train, my baby’s on board, I need to see that girl again.
Mr fireman won’t you help me, help me if you can, said I need your flashing lights to get me through this town.
Well it’s been 99 and one half days since she wen’t away, every night that she been gone, I been down on my knees and prayin, down on my knees and prayin.
Well my baby called me up on the telephone she said give me a week Matty Charles and I’ll be on my way home - I said can you make it any quicker babe? I’m so tired of bein alone!
Well my baby’s on that train I can feel her comin on down the track,
Well my baby’s on that train I can feel her comin on down the track,
When my baby comes home I ain’t never gonna let her go back,
When my baby comes home I ain’t never gonna let her go back.