My Father Lyrics

You know my father was a conductor on a train

Hauling iron ore from the Northern Range

Load those cars and then travel cross the land

Thinking about my dad you know he was really quite a man

Yeah, my father was a man worked on the railroad

He was a man like many others he worked hard for many years

Hiding any pain or any fear

And why he worked so hard now I plainly see

He tried to make a better life for me

Working on the railroad

Riding through country past the farms and fields

Down a highway made of wood and steel

Hauling a load of that dark red ore

From the mines to the docks by the shore

Yeah, my father was a man worked on the railroad

He was a man like others he worked hard for many years

Hiding any pain or any fear

And why he worked so hard now I plainly see

He tried to make a better life for me

Working on the railroad

There were times he'd take me along for a ride

Riding the train sitting by my daddy's side

The sound of the engine and the whistle I loved to hear

Spent some of the time in the engine with the engineer

He was a man like others he worked hard for many years

Hiding any pain or any fear

And why he worked so hard now I plainly see

He tried to make a better life for me

Working on the railroad