The Jupiter & The 119 Lyrics - Railroad Earth - Railroad Earth

The Jupiter is gleaming shining in the sun 

Everybody ready for the great cross country run 

Tell me have you heard the story goin' down the wire ... goin' down the line? 

She's ready to be going breathing smoke & steam 

She edges on the iron and the crowd begins to scream 

Tell me have you heard the story of the Jupiter and the 119? 

They fire off the cannons she blows a whistle blast 

Goes flying round the corner moving strong and moving fast 

Tell me have you heard the story goin' down the wire ... goin' down the line? 

Tell me have you heard the story of the Jupiter and the 119? 

The Jupiter is on the run heading for the setting sun 

And when she rests, the east and west are tied 

Wooooo wooooo 

Off from California from the Sacramento yard 

The 119 is moving pushing strong and pushing hard 

She's through the snowy mountains took them right in stride 

Crested the sierra & went down the other side 

Tell me have you heard the story going down the wire ... going down the line? 

Across the grassed horizon across the giant plain 

Across a thousand miles of iron roars the mighty U.P. train 

She tops the Sherman summit a mighty feat of man 

Sails through echo canyon and across the dale creek span 

Tell me have you heard the story going down the wire ... going down the line? 

Through the fiery desert the 119 has run 

Through the devil's gorge beneath the blazing fiery sun 

Through tunnels and through canyons cleared by shovel & by pick 

10,000 men who blasted, clawed and hauled with muscles thick 

Tell me have you heard the story going down the wire ... going down the line? 

Tell me have you heard the story of the Jupiter and the 119? 

The Jupiter is on the run heading for the setting sun 

And when she rests, the east and west are tied 

Wooooo wooooo woo woo wooooo 

They've met in promontory from the east and west they're here 

All across the country they've raised a mighty cheer 

The mighty trains are polished on the tracks they proudly rest 

The crowd's all gathered round them dressed up in their Sunday best 

A big brass band is playing it's a bright unclouded day 

The speaker's oratory and the bosses have their say 

The reverend says a prayer it's mercifully short 

The drunken rail-men laugh and the iron horses snort 

The engines move in closer they ease in down the line 

The champagne bottles pop so fill your glass it's toasting time 

The engines ease for meeting nose to nose alike 

They raise the silver hammer and they nail the golden spike 

Tell me have you heard the story going down the wire ... going down the line? 

Tell me have you heard the story of the Jupiter and the 119? 

Wooooo wooooo wooooo wooooo