When I was young, I spent my summer days playin' on the track.

The sound of the wheels rollin' on the steel took me out, took me back.



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Big Train from Memphis, Big Train from Memphis,

Now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone.



Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.

Each night I went to bed with the sound in my head, and the dream was a song.



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Well I've rode 'em in and back out again - you know what they say about trains;

But I'm tellin' you when that Memphis train came through,

This ol' world was not the same.



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