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Northbound Train Lyrics
I read your letter about a hundred times today.
Thought I'd better write before I'm on my way.
We're movin' now...
Just where, I can't say.
The Indiana snow fell mighty deep I hear.
So winter wheat should fetch a handsome price this year.
We'll be alright when I get outta here.
One more month livin' by the sword...
One last valley to march through...
Thirty days 'til i climb aboard that northbound train...
Back home to you.
I met a southern boy down here in Tennessee.
He must've been about the same age as me
Both as scared as two men could be...
We talked across the lines 'til break of day,
And while we talked there wasn't any blue or gray.
Just some things two farm-boys will say.
His voice dropped sweet as a mockingbird.
The drownin' rain and weather.
Once that night we both swore we heard the whistle call...
Of a northbound train.
I asked him what he was fighting for.
He said' "'Cuz Yankee, your down here."
I said, "That's something I can understand."
But I'm the son of an Indian, a volunteer...
Just tryin' to march through all this fear...
Long enough to catch that northbound train...
And Abby when I finally get back home to you...
Don't ask me nothin' 'bout the things I've had to do.
It'd chill your soul...
and break your heart in two.
I ain't the same, Lord knows I've seen some fearful things.
And I've heard the breathless beat of angel's wings.
From the bullets fly, and the saber swings.
One more month livin' by the sword...
One last valley to march through...
Thirty days 'til i climb aboard that northbound train...
Talkin' bout a northbound train.
Oh that northbound train.
Last Update: June, 10th 2013
Civil War: The Complete Work, The Lyrics
- Disk 1
- Prologue
- Brother, My Brother
- Lincoln: The Better Angels Of Our Nature
- By The Sword/Sons Of Dixie
- Tell My Father
- My Name Is Fredrick Douglass
- Freedom's Child
- Missing You (My Bill)
- If Prayin' Were Horses
- Virginia
- The Day The Sun Stood Still
- Oh, Be Joyful!
- Frederick Douglass: The Destiny Of America
- Father How Long?
- Reprise: Brother, My Brother
- A Nurse's Diary
- I Never Knew His Name
- Still I Rise
- River Jordan
- Disk 2
- Lincoln: The Bottom Is Out Of The Tub
- How Many Devils?
- Old Gray Coat
- With These Hands
- The White House At Night
- A Candle In The Window
- Greenback
- Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman?
-
Someday Lyrics
-
Regimental Drummer Lyrics
- I'll Never Pass This Way Again
- Lincoln: Letter To Mrs. Bixby
-
Five Boys Lyrics
-
Judgment Day Lyrics
- Sarah
- The Honor Of Your Name
- Northbound Train
- Last Waltz For Dixie
- In Great Deeds
- For The Glory