Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone -Kay Starr
Written by:Jack Yellen/Milton Ager
Now here's a little ditty about a depot disaster
We have a distressed damsel and the doggonest dilemma
A tell me how long the train's been gone
A tell me how long the train's been gone
A tell me how long the train's been gone
The people keep a coming but the train's done gone
Everyone knows the train don't wait
Everyone knows the train don't wait
It's your own fault if the show up late
The people keep a coming but the train don't wait
Now the sun drops in the west
Up pops the same old moon
Same as the train to explain
There'll be another choo choo soon
A tell me how long the train's been gone
A tell me how long the train's been gone
A tell me how long the train's been gone
The people keep a coming but the train's done gone
People coming
See I'm a running
See I'm a running a shoving a breaking down the gate
See I'm pushing
They're shoving
Well the people keep a coming but the train's done gone
Yes the people keep coming the train's got out
That's what everybody's talking about
You better get to moving can't be late
Because the man that takes the tickets gonna close the gate
A tell me how long the train's been gone
A tell me how long the train's been gone
A tell me how long the train's been gone
The people keep a coming but the train's done gone
The sun comes up out from the west
Up pops the same old moon
Same as the train to explain
There'll be another choo choo soon
Tell me how long the train's been gone
Ah how long has the train been gone
Tell me how long the train's been gone
The people keep a coming but the train's done gone
People keep a coming
Yes the people keep a coming
But the train done gone