Merle Haggard – Oil Tanker Train (Guitar)

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The oil tanker train from down on the river

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In Southern Pacific and Santa Fe names

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Would rumble and rattle the old boxcar we lived in

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And I was a kid then and I loved that old train

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Loaded with crude oil, headed for town

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The boxcar would tremble from the top to the ground

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And my mother could feel it even before it came

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"Get up son to the window, here comes the oil train"

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From my checkered past I can always bring back

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The memories we felt in that home by the track

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And all these years later it's still stuck in my brain

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Oh I loved that old oil tanker train

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Dad worked for the railroad when I was a kid

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And my fondest memories were things that he did

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And early one Christmas, after Santa Claus came

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There 'neath the tree ran a toy tanker train

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From my checkered past I can always bring back

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The memories we felt in that home by the track

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And all these years later it's still stuck in my brain

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Oh I loved that old oil tanker train