Conway, may I sit with you?
All the other seats are taken.
Go away.
I don't mind.
Thank you.
Pleasure, pleasure.
Well, I guess it's up to me to break the ice.
Where are you going?
Kansas City.
Oh, that's nice.
How about you?
I'm going to Oz.
Oz.
Well, I don't think I've ever heard of that place.
Oh, it's very nice there.
I go there once a year on the holidays.
Oh, that's swell.
I don't always take a train, though.
No?
No, I usually take a house.
Well, everybody's got his own favorite way of traveling, you know.
I had to take the train.
I...
I missed the last house to Kansas City.
Oh, boy.
Well, I suppose it doesn't really matter how you travel as long as you're going home.
Is that right?
True.
I've been looking forward to this trip for a year.
Really?
Yes.
Got my bags, got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
Like a child
In wild anticipation
Longed to hear that
All aboard
All aboard
Seven
That's the time we leave at seven
I'll be waiting up for heaven
Counting every mile of railroad track
Takes me back
I never thought
I'd see you again
I could be so yearning
Why did I decide to roam?
Gonna take me a sentimental journey
Sentimental journey home
This train is a going home train
This train
True.
This train is a going home train
This train
Very true.
Now the rains are falling
Hear the train a calling
This train is a going home train
This train
I say, hear that lonesome whistle
Blowing across the trestle
This home is a going home train
This train
Going home
Going home
I'm a going home
Never more
More to roam
I'm just going home
Well, pardon me, ma'am
Is this the Chattanooga choo-choo?
No, no, no
Cause it's the answer
To Topeka and the Santa Fe
I left the Pennsylvania station
About a quarter to four
I read me a magazine
And then I sure was looking forward
To the dinner and the diner
And nothing could be finer
Than to have my ham and eggs
In Carolina
When I hear that whistle
Rowing into the bar
Well, then I know
The tendency is not very far
You better shuffle and roll in
You gotta keep it rolling
Woo-hoo!
Chattanooga, there you are
Chattanooga?
Can't you hear that whistle?
That line
I figure that it's engine number 49
She's the only one
That'll start that way
On the outskirts of Topeka and the Santa Fe
Woo-hoo!
Exactly what you mean
Woo-hoo!
When I'm old
And gray and settled down
If I ever get a chance
To sneak away from town
Then I'll spend my busman's holiday
On the outskirts of Topeka
And the Santa Fe
Well, there it goes again
Looks like I'm on the wrong train
Oh, no
You keep going your way
And I'll keep going my way
For some of these days
You're gonna miss me, honey
You better believe it
Yeah, some of these days
You're gonna feel all lonely
Oh, and if you leave me
Sweet Judy, you know you're gonna grieve
You miss your singing, swinging daddy
Some of these days
Rumpf!
Back up all my cares and woe
Here I go, swinging low
Bye, bye, Blackbird
Where somebody waits for me
Sugar sweets, so is he
Bye, bye, Blackbird
I can take a hint.
No one else can know or understand me
Oh, what hard luck stories they all have me
So you can make my bed and light the lights
I'll be home late tonight
Blackbird, bye-bye
Toot, toot, tootsie, goodbye
Toot, toot, tootsie, don't you cry
You better watch for the mail
Honey, I'll never fail
And if you don't get a letter
Then you know I'm in jail
Toot, toot, tootsie, don't cry
Toot, toot, tootsie, goodbye
Beyond the horizon
Wastes a beautiful day
Goodbye to things that poor me
Joy is waiting for me
I see a blue horizon
Horizon, my life has only begun. Beyond the horizon lies a rising sun.
I know that you know, that I know, I think that I'll go. I choose you, I won't lose you. Oh, I wish you knew that I could hold you in my arms.
We've been singing on the railroad all a little long day. We've been singing on the railroad just to pass the time away.
Look down, look down that lonesome road before you travel on.
Look up, look up and see your maker when Gabriel, Gabriel, Gabriel blows his horn.
I'm so weary of toting, oh, such a load. Tired of trudging down that lonesome road.
Look down, look down that lonesome road before you travel on.
Shall we go this way?
Look down, look down, look down, look down, look down, look down, look down that lonesome road before, long before you travel on.
Look up, look up, look up, look up, look up, look up, look up and see your maker.
For Gabriel, Gabriel, Gabriel blows his horn.
We really told you, such a load. It's heavy, dredging down that lonesome road.
Look down, look down, look down, look down, look down, look down that lonesome, lonesome road before you, before you travel on.
Before you travel on.
Before you travel on.