The song Railroad Song is performed by Jim Croce in the album named The Definitve Collection: Time in a Bottle in the year 2002 .
When I was a boy in the days of the train
I'd sit by the tracks on a long summer day
And I'd wave at the brakesman, and he'd wave back at me
While the thunderclouds rolled out of East Tennessee
But the dreams of a boy disappear when you're grown
And though I may dream, the railroads are gone
The ties they are rotten and the tracks shot to hell
Along with my dreams and the old railroad bell
In my dreams I ride the rails to California
Workin' diners and farms along the way
Or I'd hop a ride to hide across the border
With a black eyed girl beside me all the way
Now the mountains are silent and the railroads are gone
And the coal towns no longer hear the miners at dawn
But the train whistle shrills out her memories to me
While the thunderclouds roll out of East Tennessee
In my dreams I ride the rails to California
Workin' diners and farms along the way
Or I'd hop a ride to hide across the border
With a black eyed girl beside me all the way
Now the mountains are silent and the railroads are gone
And the coal towns no longer hear the miners at dawn
But the train whistle shrills out her memories to me
While the thunderclouds roll out of East Tennessee
Jim Croce - The Definitve Collection: Time in a Bottle
- (And) I Her Remember Her
- New York Is Not My Home
- Rapid Boy (The Stock Car Boy)
- Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business
- Maybe Tomorrow
- Chain Gang Medley-Chain Gang-He Don't Love
- Bad Boy Leroy Brown
- Which Way Are You Going
- More Than Tomorrow
- (The) Way We Used To Be
- Country Girl
- Circle Of Style
- Carnival Of Pride
- Wear Out The Turnpike
- Can't Wait
- (The) Migrant Worker
- Railroad Song