Rolling Western Union Lyrics - Elton John

Never released 

I've served upon this railroad for longer than I know 

My father and his father did the same thing long ago 

To keep the western union rolling down towards the sea 

The benefits of this great line built for you and me 

So rolling western union, you can roll on to the sea 

Ten thousand miles of beatin' steel has made a man out of me 

In every state I've driven home a rivet with my hands 

Oh it's rolling western union rolling onward, onward through our land 

It's friends of mine who died upon the building of this line 

Irishmen and chinamen and some from the british isles 

I've even seen the convicts come to work here for a while 

Before the law caught up with them and sent them back to trial 

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I had a wife while on the job a hundred miles on back 

She died in oklahoma and I laid her by the track 

All that's left is a wooden cross upright on a mound 

And every time the train rolls past, it rumbles in the ground