Big Green 38

A Song by John Hospodaryk©John Hospodaryk 2006



Come all you ride on that Big Green 38
At eighty miles and hour she's the fastest in the state
Like a big canon shell passing gum trees and towns
That Big Green 38 she's steaming on down

We'll meet at Central Station now don't you be late
It'll take us to a new life that Big Green 38

It's a one way ticket to apply for that train
We ain't coming back to Sydney Town again
The Big Green 38 was built to take you away
We'll be traveling through the night and most of the day

You can tell everybody that you're going away with me
The Big Green 38 gonna set our spirit free

We'll be gazing out the open window at the summer night
As the wind is blowing past us and big moon's shining bright
Locomotive headlight guides us to the life ahead
Two lovers fleeing south tonight secretly to wed

Don't think about the past my love rest your head against my chest
38 will get us there so sleep my love and rest

Come all you ride on that Big Green 38
At eighty miles and hour she's the fastest in the state
Like a big canon shell passing gum trees and towns
Big Green 38 she's steaming on down

We'll meet at Central Station now don't you be late
It'll take us to a new life that Big Green 38
It'll take us to a new life that Big Green 38

(spoken) Here's the whistle again blowing away

It'll take us to a new life
It'll take us to a new life
It'll take us to a new life
It'll take us to a new life that Big Green 38

Notes


"In 2005 I had  pleasure in attending the 150th Anniversary of Railways in NSW Conference at Tamworth. I sang "The Sandy Hollow Line", 'Duke' Tritton's bush ballad about oppressive working conditions among railway workers during the Great Depression, and one of my own compositions, "Railway's Coming Through", about the building of the western line in Sydney. The experience inspired me to work on an album of railway songs, "Big Green 38", about the legendary locomotive, is one of them. I hope to have this album out in the near future. In the meantime, here are the lyrics"
- John Hospodaryk, July 2006.