Johnny Cash The Rock Island Line Lyrics

The Rock Island Line Lyrics

Now this here's the story about the Rock Island Line.

Well the Rock Island
Line she runs down into New Orleans.

There's a big toll gate down there
and you know if you got certain things on board when you go through the toll
gate - Well you don't have to pay the man no toll.

Well the train driver
he pulled up to the toll gate and the man hollered and asked him what all he
had on board and he said,

“I got live stock, I got live stock, I got
cows I got pigs 

I got sheep I got mules I got … all live stock�.

Well he said “you all right boy, you don't have t'pay no toll.

You can
just go right on through�. 

So he went on through the toll gate 

And as he went through he started pickin up a little bit of speed, 

pickin up a little bit of steam.

He got on through he turned he looked
back to the man he said 

"Well I fooled you, I fooled you I got pig iron
I got pig iron I got all pig iron".



Down the Rock Island Line
she's a mighty good road

The rock Island Line it's a road to ride

The rock island line it's a mighty good road 

Well if you ride you got
to ride it like you find it 

Get your ticket at the station for the Rock
Island Line.



Oh cloudy in the west and it looked like rain. 

Around the curve come a passenger train, 

north bound train on the
south bound track. 

He did alright leaving but he won't be back.

Well the Rock Island Line she's a mighty good road

The rock Island Line
it's a road to ride

The rock island line it's a mighty good road 

Well if you ride you got to ride it like you find it 

Get your ticket
at the station for the Rock Island Line.

Oh I may be right and I may be
wrong but you gonna miss me when I'm gone.

Well the engineer said before
he died that there where 2 more drinks that he'd like to try. Conductor said
"what could they be" - A hot cup of coffee and a cold glass'a tea. 

Well
the Rock Island Line she's a mighty road

The rock Island Line it's a road
to ride

The rock island line it's a mighty good road 

Well if you
ride you got to ride it like you find it 

Get your ticket at the station
for the Rock Island Line.