slow train to reno
yessir, this train is headed west, it is
but don’t think it’ll make it there today
i hear new fangled engines, they just whiz
but this one’s like the ones from yesterday
there’s men who poke the fires with a mace and carry heavy loads across their back they bake and boil at a steady pace and shovel ‘til their fingernails turn black
and when our speed picks up it sure don’t last ‘cuz there’s too many stops along the line compared to this you’d think that it was fast to go watch onions ripen on the vine
now don’t go conversatin’ that i’m lyin’ ‘cuz some book told you onions grow in dirt i seen ‘em fall from trees ready fer fryin’ as sure as i am wearin’ this here shirt
you kids today think nothin’s left to learn from folks like me who’ve fully aged and grown you just don’t seem to even give a durn ‘bout letting us talk circles all alone
to speak of circles you should oughtta’ know around this turn you’ll wanna’ peel yer eye this train we’re on it goes so very slow you’ll see the onion bagels tumblin’ by
there’s men who poke the fires with a mace and carry heavy loads across their back they bake and boil at a steady pace and shovel ‘til their fingernails turn black
and when our speed picks up it sure don’t last ‘cuz there’s too many stops along the line compared to this you’d think that it was fast to go watch onions ripen on the vine
now don’t go conversatin’ that i’m lyin’ ‘cuz some book told you onions grow in dirt i seen ‘em fall from trees ready fer fryin’ as sure as i am wearin’ this here shirt
you kids today think nothin’s left to learn from folks like me who’ve fully aged and grown you just don’t seem to even give a durn ‘bout letting us talk circles all alone
to speak of circles you should oughtta’ know around this turn you’ll wanna’ peel yer eye this train we’re on it goes so very slow you’ll see the onion bagels tumblin’ by
