the trains are gone

the trains are gone, the trains are gone, spent like the coal they once rolled on, the rails don't hum, the bows don't, no brake-men yodelin' those rail yard songs, granddad's ranch dried up fast, ol' johnny chisum, he's seen to that, he's seen to that, matter of fact, just as sure as billy-boy got slain by pat, i know i'm young, i know i'm young, i've seen too few a settin' sun, but the more i run the changes come, swift as a freight train, the kind that's gone, the trains are gone, the trains are gone, spent like the coal they once rolled on