Where The Train Whistle Blows (Live at Barnyard Boogie)

"Where The Train Whistle Blows"

Caleb Coleman had a woman
He feared she was untrue
She'd sneak of after midnight
Return as the dawn was blue
In his back yard railway cars
Passed 3 times a night or so
Down by the crossing
Where that Train Whistle Blows

Caleb stired and woke one night
reaching for her hip
But Cold Sheets were all he found
In his loving grip
He spied her down the back hill
But she wasn't there alone
His brother held her tightly
Where the train whistle blows

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Where the train whistle blows.
Hauling Alegany coal
Lies a secret there that only Caleb knows.
Down where that train whistle blow


Caleb had a plan He made sure he didn't warn
He meditated on it his anger kept him warm
Dug in rhythm with the drivers as he shoveled 6 feet low
Covered it with branches
where the train whistle blows

He knew the schedule well
The moon brought on the ice
When those flurries started falling
He went creeping through the night
Towards the lovers with his shot gun
His tracks covered by he snow
Noone would hear the buck shot where that train whistle blows

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His hands were shaking like the rails
But He wasn't gonna budge
They'd done the crime and had to face the jury and the judge
Kneeling by their grave
She pleaded Caleb No
The steam rose
He shot them where that train whistle


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100 cars per frieghter
Countless whistles blown
20 billion pounds of anthricite

Rattling their bones


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featuring Shelly Monroe (cello), Darlene McKinney ( bass), Rachel May(vocals), Red Smith(Guitar/vocals), Nate Grower(fiddle), Mike Shade(Guitar) and Matt Zuckerman(dobro)