On The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe Jg Lyrics

On The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe Jg lyrics

On The Atchison, Topeka and The Santa Fe
Judy Garland
- words by Johnny
Mercer, music by Harry Warren
- introduced by Judy Garland in the 1945 MGM
film "The Harvey Girls"
- lyrics as recorded by Judy Garland September 10,
1945
on Decca 23458 (78 r.p.m. single)

What a lovely trip
I'm
feeling so fresh and alive
And I'm so glad to arrive
It's all so
grand
It's easy to see you don't need a palace
To feel like Alice in
Wonderland

Back in Ohio where I come from
I've done a lot of dreamin'
and I've travelled some
But I never thought I'd see the day
When I ever
took a ride on the Santa Fe
(wanna take a ride on the Santa Fe)

I
would lean across my window sill
And hear the whistle echoin' across the
hill
Then I'd watch the lights till they fade away
On the Atchison,
Topeka and the Santa Fe

What a thrill (what a great big wonderful
thrill)
With the wheels a-singin' "westward ho"
Right from the day I
heard them start
'Cross the Kansas plains from New Mexico
I guess I've
got a little gypsy in my heart

When I'm old and grey and settled
down
If I ever get a chance to sneak away from town
Then I'll spend my
busman's holiday
On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe

All aboard!
(we came across the country lickety-split)
(rollin' ninety miles an
hour)
I can't believe I'm here at last
Woo-oo-ooo!
(when you go
travellin', it's best for you
to take the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa
Fe!)
I can't believe that anything could go so fast

Then you pull
that throttle, whistle blows
A-huffin' and a-puffin' and away she
goes
All aboard for California*, hey!
On the Atchison (on the
Atchison)
On the Atchison, Topeka (on the Atchison, Topeka)
On the
Atchison, Topeka (on the Atchison, Topeka)
On the Atchison, Topeka and the
Santa
Fe!

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*California
pronounced "californ-eye-ay"