O, The Train's Off the Track
from MMF! Songbook

History
O, The Train's Off the Track is a Virginia folksong with a limited five note range. Though the imagery of the train is often a popular device in Southern folksongs to symbolize going to heaven, it is simply a train here.

Lyrics
O, the trains off the track,
and I can't get it back,
and I can't get a letter to my home.
To my home, to my home,
And I can't get a letter to my home.

If you say so,
I'll railroad no more;
I'll sidetrack my train and go home.
And go home, and go home,
I'll sidetrack my train and go home.

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