Here Comes the Freedom Train Songtext
von Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton

All aboard America! Here comes the Freedom Train
All aboard America! Here comes the Freedom Train

The Freedom Train′s a-rollin'
Down two hundred years of track
Two hundred years of glory
Never to turn back
The train is called, "America"
Your ticket is the dream
That lit the torch of freedom
For all the world to see

She left the station in Lexington, In 1776
And rolled to Philadelphia
Where the Liberty Bell was fixed
George Washington, was the engineer
John Adams, shoveled coal
Ben Franklin, punched the tickets
Tom Jefferson, added soul

All aboard America! Here comes the Freedom Train
All aboard America! Here comes the Freedom Train


She rolled to Old New Orleans, for the battle of 1812
With Old Hickory at the throttle
She drove the British out
The Freedom Train′s, a fine train
The best the world has seen
Her whistle blows for the liberty
Democracy, is the steam

Wheels forged in sweaty Pittsburgh
Rolled 'cross the Mississipp'
From Texas to Missouri, a new exciting trip
Then bang, the track was broken
Smashed by a cannonball
Blue and gray divided
Will the nation stand or fall?

All aboard America! Here comes the Freedom Train
All aboard America! Here comes the Freedom Train

Then Honest Abe, stepped in the cab
And the wheels began to roll
The Freedom Train, must never stop
The republic never fall
Through the bloody fields, of Gettysburg
The tears shone in his eyes
As he drove the train with fury
And freedom did survive


Once again, the train rolled westward
To California′s golden shore
Through the desert, and prairie
Stronger than before
From Atlantic to Pacific
She rolled the rails, with pride
And traveled the tracks to glory
That good old,American kind

All aboard America! Here comes the Freedom Train
All aboard America! Here comes the Freedom Train

There′s much more to this story
There's Wilson and Roosevelt
Who passed the torch to Truman
The flame did not go out
Of Dwight D. Eisenhower, and LBJ, we sing
Two brothers, known as Kennedy
And Martin Luther King

Still, the train rolls forward
Over history′s rugged trail
Strengthened, by her journey
Her light, will never fail
You and I, will roll along
And stroke the freedom fire
For we stand tall, Americans all
No honor, can be higher

All aboard America! Here comes the Freedom Train
All aboard America! Here comes the Freedom Train