Not Just A Train lyrics

i can strum a little, i can hold a chord this ain't the gospel and i ain't the lord i'm no holy roller, but for what it's worth my freedom's a train ride to heaven on earth it's not just a train it's saying goodbye, saying hello to where we have been, where we might go it's what we have passed, what we might see it's not just a train, it's freedom to me kids flattening pennies as the ironhorse rolls by between the trains i see an old man face full of smiles young woman crying as her lover leaves gun on his shoulder and stripes on his sleeve it's not just a train it's saying goodbye, saying hello to where we have been, where we might go it's what we have passed, what we might see it's not just a train, it's freedom to me through a crack in the the slats a harvest moon shines on Harper Lee's pages i turn to kill time the car toads are waiting for me at the station to give the bum's rush to a frost bitten bo it's not just a train it's saying goodbye, saying hello to where we have been, where we might go it's what we have passed, what we might see it's not just a train, it's freedom to me