Leslie Fish Grain Train Lyrics

[Chorus]
As I was going up from town
I met the grain trains rolling down
Every day, hundred trains
Every train, hundred cars
Every car, hundred tons
Every ton, hundred sacks
Every sack, ten thousand grains
And that's what cities get from trains

[Verse 1]
Some politicians lacking brains
Said in voices dripping sweet
"We don't really need these trains
Railroads all are obsolete
Their union's strong it makes demands
They guard their yards with railroad dicks
Who kick our cops clean off their lands
Do not like our politics"
[Chorus]
As I was going up from town
I met the grain trains rolling down
Every day, hundred trains
Every train, hundred cars
Every car, hundred tons
Every ton, hundred sacks
Every sack, tеn thousand grains
And that's what cities get from trains

[Verse 2]
So the politicians passеd some laws
To screw more money off the trains
And deeper dip their pudgy paws
In more control of railroad gains
The railroad said, "Get off our land" They went on strike to show their peak
The grain trains stopped their rolling and
The cities starved within a week

[Chorus]
As I was going up from town
I met the grain trains rolling down
Every day, hundred trains
Every train, hundred cars
Every car, hundred tons
Every ton, hundred sacks
Every sack, ten thousand grains
And that's what cities get from trains
[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
Hunger riots burned and rose
And battered down the statehouse door
And all those fat politicos
Were killed and eaten by the poor
And with the city out of joint
And no more politician men
The railroad said they'd proved their point
And sent the grain trains down again

[Chorus]
As I was going up from town
I met the grain trains rolling down
Every day, hundred trains
Every train, hundred cars
Every car, hundred tons
Every ton, hundred sacks
Every sack, ten thousand grains
And that's what cities get from trains