Silverton Lyrics - C.w. Mccall

She was born one mornin' on a Sun Juan summer back in 18-an'-80-an'-1 

She was a beautiful daughter of the D & RG and she weighed about a thousand ton 

Well it's a 45 mile thru the Animas Canyon so they set her on the narrow-guage 

She drunk a whole lotta water and she ate a lotta coal 

And they called her the Silverton (Silverton Train) 

(Here comes the Silverton up from Durango 

Here come the Silverton a shovelin' coal 

Here comes the Silverton up from the canyon 

See the smoke and hear the whistle blow) 

Well now listen to the whistle in the rockwood cut on the high line to Silverton Town 

And you're gonna get a shiver when you check out the river 

Which is four hundred feet straight down 

Take on some water and the Needleton tank and then I struggle up a two-five grade 

And by the time you get your hide past the snowshed slide 

You've had a ride on the Silverton (Silverton Train) 

(Here comes the Silverton... 

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(Here comes the Silverton... 

Now down by the station early in the mornin' there's a whole lotta people in line 

And they all got a ticket on the train to yesterday and it's a gonna leave on time 

Well it's a 45 mile thru the Animas Canyon so they set her on the narrow-guage 

She takes a whole lotta water and she ate a lotta coal 

And they called her the Silverton (Silverton Train) 

(Here comes the Silverton... 

(Here comes the Silverton...