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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 17:53:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul Clanon <pac@netcom.com>
Subject: CRD: New Train, by John Prine
Status: O
New Train
John Prine
AFull blown silence in an Dempty room
A former bride and a Aformer groom
A folding table and a fEolding chair
A folded hand of pAoker there
All new directions must go eDverywhere
Big round people in a cAool little square
You can't cut it with a Eboat or a plane
Man it's gonna take a Dnew tArain
You'll be leaving on a new train
Far away from this world of pain
And when you look out your window you'll see
Your home, your baby, and your family
No melted ice cubes in a paper cup
Hell, you'll be happy, you'll be all shook up
The friends that greet you will be simple and plain
When you step down from that new train
Collected volumes of history say
Man makes mistakes most every day
The half a pound of chopped ground round
Is still a burger when it goes downtown
No faded photographs of yesterdays
Are in the books that I read these days
To fly away from that memory town
You must keep both your feet on the ground
Repeat II
I'll be leaving on a new train
Far away from this world of pain
The friends that greet me will be simple and plain
When I step down from that new train
New train new train
pac@netcom.com
>From Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, Oh Boy Records, 1995