A Train Not Running - Chris Knight

The sound of a train not running

Has been keeping me awake

The Westmore land mine ain’t run much coal

Since back in '88

Got on at the sawmill

But I’ve got to find a better way

Or the sound of a train not running

Is gonna carry me away

And every time you look at me, Mary

I want to tell you someday

We’ll leave the sound of a train not running

A thousand miles away

I don’t want to risk my freedom

Growing crops on company land

But it’d be a damned sight better

Than a government check in my hand

I used to bring home good money

You used to drive a decent car

But now we go to town on Saturday

It seems a little too far

And every time you look at me, Mary

I want to tell you someday

We’ll leave the sound of a train not running

A thousand miles away

Now some nights when our baby cries

I feel a twinge of fear

When the sound of a train not running

Is the only thing I hear

And every time you look at me, Mary

I want to tell you someday

We’ll leave the sound of a train not running

A thousand miles away