Intro: Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, one of these mornings, it won't be long Captain's gonna call and I'll be gone, I'll be nine hundred miles away from home verse 1 Well, you can count the days I'm gone, you can tell the train I'm on You can hear the whistle blow as she rolls by She rolls by, she rolls by, hear the whistle blow as she rolls by verse 2 My olden shoes are worn, my olden clothes are torn And I hate to go home now this-a-way This-a-way, this-a-way, hate to go home this-a-way Instrumental verse 3 Well, if my Mama she says so, I'll railroad no more I'll side-track my train and go home And go home, and go home, side-track my train and go home Instrumental verse 4 If I die a Railroad Man, I want to be buried in the sand So I can hear old No. 9 as she rolls by She rolls by, she rolls by Hear old No. 9 as she rolls by, oh yeah, yeah, ooooh