This was first released on the All Aboard! album. It is the only album it has been released on.
Daddy, what's a train? Is it I can ride? Does it carry lots of grown-up and little kids inside? Is it bigger than our Well how can I explain my little boy and girl ask me 'Daddy, what's a train?'
When I was just a boy and by the track Us would gather up the coal in big 'ole gunnysacks Then we heard the sound as the train pulled into view The would smile and wave as she went rolling through
She blew so loud and clear, we had to up our ears And we counted cars just as as we could go I can almost hear the steam big old drivers scream A my little kids will never know
Daddy, a train? Is it something I can ride? Does it carry of grown-up folks and little kids inside? Is it bigger than our Well how can I explain When my little boy and girl ask me 'Daddy, what's a
I guess the times have changed, are different now 'Cause some don't even seem to know that milk from a cow My little boy can tell the names of all the baseball I remember how we memorized the names on railroad
The and the TP, Lackawanna, the IC The Nichel-Plate and the good old Fe Just names out of the past, I they're fading fast Every time I hear my boy say
Daddy, what's a Is it something I can ride? Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and kids inside? Is it bigger than our house? Well how can I When my little boy and girl ask me 'Daddy, a train?'
We climbed into the car, drove down town Right up to the depot house, but no one was We searched the yard together for I could show But I knew there hadn't a train for a dozen years or so
All the things I did when I was a kid How far away those appear I guess it's plain to see they still a lot to me 'Cause my ambition was to be an
Daddy, what's a Is it something I can ride? Does it lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside? Is it bigger than our Well how can I explain my little boy and girl ask me 'Daddy, what's a train?'
Words and Music by ??U. Utah?? Phillips