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When I was young I spend my summer days playing on the track
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The sound of the wheels rolling on the steel took me out and brought me back
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Big train from Memphis, Big train from Memphis
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Now it's gone, gone, gone.    Gone, gone, gone.

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Like no one before he let out a roar and I just had to tag along
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Each night I went to bed with the sound in my head and the dream was a song
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Big train from Memphis, Big train from Memphis
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Now it's gone, gone, gone.    Gone, gone, gone.

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Well I rode 'em in and back out again. You know what they say about trains
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But I'm telling you when the Memphis train came through 
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this old world was not the same
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Big train from Memphis, Big train from Memphis
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Now it's gone, gone, gone.    Gone, gone, gone.