Farmer - Labor train
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1. From the high Canadian Rockies to the land
of Mexico,
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city
and the country, wherever you may go,
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through the wild and windy weather, the sun and sleet and rain,
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comes a-whistlin' through the country this Farmer-Labor train.
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Listen to the jingle and the rumble and the
roar,
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she's rollin' through New England to the West
Pacific shore.
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It's a long time we've been waitin', now she's
whistlin' 'round the bend,
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roll on into Congress on that Farmer-Labor
train.
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2. There's lumberjacks and teamsters and
sailors from the sea,
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there's farmin' boys from Texas and the hills of Tennessee,
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there's miners from Kentucky, there's fishermen from Maine,
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every worker in the country rides that Farmer-Labor train.
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3. There's warehouse boys and truckers and guys
that skin the cats,
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men
that run the steel mills, the furnace and the blast.
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Through the smoky factory cities, o'er the hot and dusty plains,
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and
the cushions they are crowded, on this Farmer-Labor train.
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4. There's folks of every color and they're
ridin' side by side,
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through the swamps of Louisiana and across the Great Divide.
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From
the wheat fields and the orchards and the lowing cattle range,
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and
they're rolling onto victory on this Farmer-Labor train.
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5. This train pulled into Washington, a bright
and happy day,
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when
she steamed into the station you could hear the people say:
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"There's that Farmer-Labor Special, she's full of union men,
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headin' onto White House on the Farmer-Labor train."
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(Woody
Guthrie)