Day was growing ***, the sun was on the rim
As I wandered in my old hometown
Come from miles away, home for just a day
No one to hear me thinking out loud
They sent his body and we laid him down
What a day it's been, a hundred friends
Saying they're so sorry that it had to be
Mother is the one, now she lost her son
Lost her only brother back in 43
And I wonder why it wasn't me
Right then I heard the evening train
Wild enough to rock my soul
Right when my heart turned over in pain
I heard the evening train
I smoked a cigarette
There's things I can't forget
Seemed returning from my whole life long
When we were boys
He'd help me fix my toys
In high school football he was fast and strong
And I know that it's been done wrong
Somebody said he's lucky that he's dead
He's dead already
And I've been wounded and it ruins me
But he's no man at all
A soldier that did fall
Lost and lonely in a foreign land
How I wish that I could shake his hand
Right then I heard the evening train
Loud enough to rock my soul
I heard the evening train loud enough to rock my soul

And I wonder why it wasn't me
Right then I heard the evening train
Wild enough to rock my soul
Lost my soul
I heard the evening train

Right when my heart turned over in pain
I heard the evening train
Right then I heard the evening train


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