ROCK ISLAND LINE

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Now this here's the story about the Rock Island Line
The Rock Island Line she runs down into New Orleans
There's a big toll gate down there
you know if you got certain things on board

when you go through the toll gate
you don't have to pay the man no toll

Well the train driver he pulls up to the toll gate
and the man he hollers at him and ask him what
all he has aboard.


I got livestock, I got livestock ,I got cows, I got pigs, I got sheep
I got mules, I got all livestock,
 

Well he says, you alright boy
you don't have to pay me no tollage

just Get on through,
And when he go through the tollgate
The train gotta have a little bit of steam
And a little bit of speed
And when he get on through
He shouts back down the line to the man
I fooled you, I fooled you
I got pig iron, I got pig iron
I got all pig iron,

CHORUS:

now the rock island line is a might good road
Oh the rock island line is the road to ride
The rock island line is a mighty good road
Well if you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station of the rock island line

it was cloudy in the west, looked like rain,
but round the corner come-a passenger train.
North-bound train on the south bound track,
you were all right a-leavin but you won't be back

Chorus

now I may be right and I may be wrong
but you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

Now the engineer said before he died,
there were two more drinks he'd like to have tried,
the doctor asked him "what could they be"
he said "a hot cup of coffee and a cold glass of tea"

chorus

Song: Rock Island Line
Artist: Johnny Cash 
Album: Johnny Cash With His Hot And Blue Guitar
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