Kentucky Borderline Lyrics

Kentucky Borderline lyrics

She pulled out of Mobile 

in the pouring rain, 

Moving through the darkness 

like a hurricane. 

From southern New Port waters 

to the Cumberland so green, 

Louisville by Nashville 

and all points in between. 

Pounding out a rhythm 

making up lost time, 

Heading for that 

bluegrass state of mine. 



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White smoke a rollin' 

Whistle a blowin' 

Listening to her engine keeping time 

Kentucky borderline. 



Montgomery my morning 

Birmingham by noon, 

Onward through the timber 

upward to the moon. 

Her lonesome whistle cries 

a low sighed refrain, 

like the boys down on Mill street 

singing of the pain. 

No one is gonna stop her 

from her appointed rounds, 

This train is moving on 

its glory bound. 



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Her lungs are full of fire 

breathing burning coal, 

A raging locamotion 

like thunder when it rolls. 

Singing for the mighty 

who cast her molten steel, 

Drawed the spike and layed the rail 

to ride beneath her wheels. 

The pride of our nation 

she's a monument to them, 

A southern bell 

that mighty L&N 



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