Do you hear that whistle down the line?
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I figure that it's engine number forty-nine,
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She's the only one that'll sound that way.
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On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
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See the ol' smoke risin' round the bend,
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I reckon that she knows she's gonna meet a friend,
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Folks around these parts get the time o' day
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From the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
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Here she comes!
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Ooh, ooh, ooh,
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Hey, Jim! yuh better git the rig!
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Ooh, ooh, ooh,
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She's got a list o' passengers that's pretty big
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And they'll all want lifts to Brown's Hotel,
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'Cause lots o' them been travelin' for quite a spell,
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All the way to Cal-i-forn-i-ay
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On the Atchison, Topeka
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On the Atchison, Topeka
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on the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.
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Ooh-ee!
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Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe,
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Atchison, Topeka.
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Oh, the roads back east are mighty swell,
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The Chesapeake, Ohio and the ASL,
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But I make my run and I make my pay
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On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.
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Goin' back and forth along these aisles,
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My land, you must've walked about a million miles.
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It's a treat to be on your feet all day
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On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.
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Here we come!
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Raa-a-raa-a-raa-a-raa-raa-raa
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She's really rakin' down the line
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Looky, look, look, looky look, look, look
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Oh, boy, we're huffin' and a-puffin' on the forty-nine!
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In this day and age girls don't leave home
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But if you get a hankerin', you wanna roam
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Our advice to you is run away
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On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.
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Hey, men, did you ever see such perty femininity
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arrivin' all at once in this here town?
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In this here town?
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Never saw the likes of this for miles around!
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Round and round our heads are spinning,
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New adventures are beginning.
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What a length of calico,
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It's taffet-ee and calico to really put a cowboy on the kibosh
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Cowboy, kibosh
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It's enough to make a fella wanna wash...
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Wash your face and hands, we hope you'll never be afraid of soap!
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Button shoes and powdered chalk and fancy smells and baby talk-
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It's awful what a gal will stoop to do!
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Even so, we aim to say we love to honor and oh-
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Baby, are there any more at home like you?
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Hand me my hair combed and my slicker,
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Gonna get spruced up and I'll --- her.
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Put on the dog and I'll city-slick her,
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Mr. Harvey, Mr. Harvey,
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Fred Harvey knows exactly how to pick 'em!
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We come from Dubuque, I-O-Way,
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That's where the tall, tall, tall corn grows.
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We come from Louisiana,
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That's where the Mis-is-is-is-isippi flows.
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I was the Lilian Russell of Cherryville, Kansas,
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But they never gave me a chance.
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I finished high school in Providence, Rhode Island,
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And Providence, Rhode Island is where dance.
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(Virginia O'Brien)
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Oh, I'm from Chillicothe-
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Ohio!
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My middle name's Hi-a-wath-ee -
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Ohio!
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I'm gonna git the gold in them thar hills,
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So I said good-bye-o, Ohio!
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We were school marms from Grand Rapids, Mich.
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But reading, writing, 'rithmetic were not our dish.
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(Ruth Brady)
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I was born in Paris,
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I was raised in Paris,
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Went to school in Paris, Where I met a boy
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I was married in Paris,
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Almost buried in Paris,
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But I finally left Paris-
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Paris, Illinois!
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(Ray Bolger)
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So this is the wild and woolly west!
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Give me my chaps and my checkered vest.
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Give me a girl and a holster for my hip!
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Bang, bang! Yip, yip!
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What a lovely trip
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I'm feeling so fresh and alive
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And I'm so glad to arrive
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It's all to grand
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It's easy to see, you dont need a palace
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To feel like Alice in Wonderland
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Back in Ohio, where I come from
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I've done alot of dreamin' and I traveled some
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But I never thought, I'd see the day
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When I ever took a ride on the Santa Fe
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Wanna take a ride on the Santa Fe
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I would lean across my window sill
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And hear the whistle echoin' across the hills
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Then I'd watch the lights as they fade away
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On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
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What a thrill
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What a great big wonderful thill
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With the whistle singing westward ho!
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Right from the day I heard them start
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'Cross the Kansas plains through New Mexico
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I guess I've got a little gypsy in my heat
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When I'm old and gray and settled down
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If I ever |