[03:28.00]Album by: The Mountain
[03:28.00]Artist by: Steve Earle
[03:28.00]My grandaddy was a railroad man
[03:28.00]When I was young he took me by the hand
[03:28.00]Dragged me to the station at the break of dawn
[03:28.00]Said boy I got to show you somethin fore its gone
[03:28.00]She was blue and silver - she was right on time
[03:28.00]We rode that texas eagle on the mopac line
[03:28.00]We had some sandwiches that granma packed
[03:28.00]We rode to palestine and hitchhiked back
[03:28.00]Home in time for supper with a tale to tell
[03:28.00]That night I dreamed I heard that lonesome whistle wail
[03:28.00]When I got old enough to take the train alone
[03:28.00]I rode that texas eagle down to san antone
[03:28.00]Nowadays they don't make no trains
[03:28.00]Just the piggyback freighters and them amtrak things
[03:28.00]They shut the eagle down awhile ago
[03:28.00]Sold it to the railroad down in mexico
[03:28.00]But every now and then that whistles on my mind
[03:28.00]I ride that texas eagle cross the borderline