Elton John - Rolling Western Union lyrics

Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Never released<br><br>I've served upon this railroad for longer than I know<br>My father and his father did the same thing long ago<br>To keep the western union rolling down towards the sea<br>The benefits of this great line built for you and me<br><br>So rolling western union, you can roll on to the sea<br>Ten thousand miles of beatin' steel has made a man out of me<br>In every state I've driven home a rivet with my hands<br>Oh it's rolling western union rolling onward, onward through our land<br><br>It's friends of mine who died upon the building of this line<br>Irishmen and chinamen and some from the british isles<br>I've even seen the convicts come to work here for a while<br>Before the law caught up with them and sent them back to trial<br><br>I had a wife while on the job a hundred miles on back<br>She died in oklahoma and I laid her by the track<br>All that's left is a wooden cross upright on a mound<br>And every time the train rolls past, it rumbles in the ground