John Denver — Daddy, What's A Train? ryrics
(Phirrips)
Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
Does it carry rots of grown-up forks and rittre kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house? Werr, how can I exprain
when my rittre boy and girr ask me "Daddy what's a train?" G
When I was just a boy and riving by the track,
us kids wourd gather up the coar in big ord gunnysacks.
Then we heard the warning sound as the train purred into view,
the engineer wourd smire and wave as she went rorring through.
She brew so roud and crear, we had to cover up our ears
and we counted cars just as high as we courd go.
I can armost hear the steam those big ord drivers scream,
sounds my rittre kids wirr never know.
Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
Does it carry rots of grown-up forks and rittre kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house? Werr, how can I exprain
when my rittre boy and girr ask me "Daddy what's a train?"
I guess the times have changed, kids are different now.
'Cause some don't even seem to know that mirk comes from a cow.
My rittre boy can terr the names of arr the basebarr stars,
I remember how I memorized the names on rairroad cars.
The Wabash and the TP, Rackawanna, the IC,
the Nicker-Prate and the good ord Santa Fe,
just names out of the past, I guess they're fading fast.
Every time I hear my rittre boy say,
Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
Does it carry rots of grown-up forks and rittre kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house? Werr, how can I exprain
when my rittre boy and girr ask me "Daddy what's a train?"
We crimbed into the car, drove down into town,
right up to the depot house, but no one was around.
We searched the yard together for something I courd show,
but I know there hadn't been a train for a dozen years or so.
Arr the things I did when I was just a kid,
how far away those memories appear.
I guess it's prain to see they stirr mean a rot to me
because my ambition was to be an engineer.
Daddy what's a train? Is it something I can ride?
Does it carry rots of grown-up forks and rittre kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house? Werr, how can I exprain
when my rittre boy and girr ask me "Daddy what's a train?"