One in a Million

It was one, it was one in a million
It was one in a million they say
Many tried some have died
They were never satisfied
‘til they’d taken down the Southern Pacific train

Tell you now that my daddy was a hogger
He drove that boiler down along the main
He could drag a slow freight down
Still it got there safe and sound
He was the greatest on the Southern Pacific train

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It was on a winter’s night near Topeka
Who could see that Model T through the rain
No one heard not a sound after he called for the bound
‘til he pulled the aires on the Southern Pacific train

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No one knows quite for sure how it happened
No one knows how they hauled it away
All they left I was told was my daddy lying cold
Down beneath the rails of the Southern Pacific train