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Uncle Tupelo

Train

Release date: 21st June 1990

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About This Track

"Train" is a track by Uncle Tupelo, from the album No Depression, released 21st June 1990. Full lyrics are available below.

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Uncle Tupelo

Uncle Tupelo

Lyrics

Train

[Verse 1]

A quarter after 2

Sitting in my car, watching, waiting on a train

Ninety-seven flatcars

Loaded down with troop trucks and tanks

Rolling by

[Chorus]

I'm twenty-one and I'm scared as hell

I quit school, I was healthy as a horse

Because of all that I'll be the first one to die in a war

[Verse 2]

The whole damn town was sleeping

Dreaming the same dream

The radio was playing

Roger McGuinn singing

"To each and every thing there's a time and a season"

[Chorus]

I'm twenty-one and I'm scared as hell

I quit school, I was healthy as a horse

Because of all that I'll be the first one to die in a war

[Bridge]

Yes, I have the right to say

We all die anyway

But I'd just like to know

Where does my dying go?

What for?

What for?

[Verse 1]

A quarter after 2

Sitting in my car, watching, waiting on a train

Ninety-seven flatcars

Loaded down with troop trucks and tanks

Rolling by

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Track details

From No Depression

1990
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No Depression
No Depression
Uncle Tupelo
Release year
1990
  1. —John Hardy
  2. —Flatness
  3. —Factory Belt
  4. —Outdone
  5. —No Depression
  6. —Before I Break
  7. —Screen Door
  8. —Life Worth Livin'
  9. —That Year
  10. —Train
  11. —Graveyard Shift
  12. —Whiskey Bottle
  13. —So Called Friend
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Writer
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