ENGINEERS DON'T WAVE FROM THE TRAINS ANYMORE
(Tom T. Hall)


Tom T. Hall&  Earl Scruggs - 1982





The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore
Not like they did back in nineteen-fifty-four
They've got computers and diesels and things
And the engineers don't wave from the trains anymore
The engineers don't wave from the trains

When I was a little boy, I'd hang around the tracks
Watchin' them trains goin' to Louisville and back
I had my dreams and I had my plans
I was gonna be an engineer man

But the engineers don't wave from the trains anymore
Not like they did back in nineteen-fifty-four
They got computers and diesels and things
And the engineers don't wave from the trains anymore
The engineers don't wave from the trains

(Instrumental Break)

Them big old trains used to chugga-chug and spew
They were my heroes and they knew that I knew
No matter how far they snaked down the track
They'd go somewhere and they'd turn around, come back

Oh, but the engineers don't wave from the trains anymore
Not like they did back in nineteen-fifty-four
They got computers and diesels and things
And the engineers don't wave from the trains anymore
The engineers don't wave from the trains

There's more important things that's changin' the world
The engineers forgot all us little boys and girls
Still get a faraway look in my eye when I hear an ole train in the night
And the engineers don't wave from the trains anymore
The engineers don't wave from the trains
Psh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2012)