Here Comes the Freedom Train

[Chorus]
All aboard, America
Here comes the freedom train
All aboard, America
Here comes the freedom train

[Verse 1]
The freedom train is rolling down two hundred years of track
Two hundred years of glory never to turn back
The train is called America, your ticket is a dream
That left the torch of freedom for all the world to see

She left the station in Lexington in 1776
And rode to Philadelphia where the Liberty Bell was fixed
George Washington was the engineer, John Adams shoveled coal
Ben Franklin punched the tickets, Tom Jefferson added soul

[Chorus]
All aboard, America
Here comes the freedom train
All aboard, America
Here comes the freedom train

[Verse 2]
She rode to New Orleans, the Battle of 1812
With Old Hickory at the throttle, she drove the British out
The freedom train's a fine train, the toughest the world has seen
Her whistle blows for the liberty with a mighty head of steam

Wheels forge to sweaty Pittsburgh, rolled across the Mississipp'
From Texas to Missouri for one real exciting trip
Then bang! The track was broken, smashed by a cannonball
That blue and grey divided, will the nation stand or fall?

[Chorus]
All aboard, America
Here comes the freedom train
All aboard, America
Here comes the freedom train

[Verse 3]
Then Honest Abe stepped into the cab and the wheels began to roll
The Freedom Train must never stop, the Republic never fold
Through the bloody fields of Gettysburg, the tear shown in his eyes
As he drove the train with fury, the freedom train survived

Again the train rolled westward to California shores
To the deserts and the prairies even stronger than before
From Atlantic to Pacific, she rode the rails with pride
She traveled a track to glory with the good Lord on her side

[Chorus]
All aboard, America
Here comes the freedom train
All aboard, America
Here comes the freedom train

[Verse 4]
There's much more to this story like Wilson and Roosevelt
They left the train to Truman who stoked it mighty well
Then of Dwight D. Eisenhower and LBJ we sing
Two brothers known as Kennedy and Martin Luther King

And still the train rolls forward over history's rugged trail
Straightened by the journey and the land beneath the rail
And you and I roll along and stoke the freedom fire
For we stand tall, Americans all, no honor can be higher

[Chorus]
All aboard, America
Here comes the freedom train
All aboard, America
Here comes the freedom train