Big black train comin' down the track Blow your whistle long and long
One minute you're here Next minute you're gone
I lay my penny down on the rails As the summer wind sings its last song
One minute you're here
Next minute you're gone Baby baby baby I'm so alone Baby baby baby I'm coming home
Autumn carnival on the edge of town We walk down the midway arm-in-arm
One minute you're here Next minute you're gone
I thought I knew just who I was And what I'd do but I was wrong
One minute you're here Next minute you're gone
Red river running along the edge of town
On the muddy banks I lay my body down This body down
Footsteps cracklin' on a gravel road Stars vanish in a sky as black as stone
One minute you're here Next minute you're gone
One minute you're here Next minute you're gone
One minute you're here