(Randy HandleyJack Sundrud)

I remember my first ride

All aboard the eight-o-five

Ran from Dixie to Moline

Stopped about a hundred times between

Safe between my ma and pa

I saw boom-town America

Sailin' over waves of grain

Gone the way of the Heartland Train

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H-o-o-o wa-a-h

On an iron horse to glory I did ride

H-o-o-o wa-a-h

When it felt like there was no end of the line

Holdin' on into the night

I counted every backwoods light

Lonesome whistle singin' sweet

Rhythm of the rails rock me to slee-eep

I dreamed I'd be the engineer

Steamin' through a new frontier

Boys will grow and dreams will fade

Gone the way of the Heartland Train

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Now all the farms amd old downtowns

Are boarded up or all torn down

Beaten by the winds of change

Gone the way of the Heartland Train

Yes, and...

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