The Blue Train - Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt

Watching the long faces

Riding this run down track

And the lost places

From a dream that never brings them back

And the sad truth is

Nothing but a cold hard fact

I’m riding the blue train

Over the miles yet to cover

A ghost in a hurry to fade

I’m taking it one way to nowhere

Afraid you might be there

To find me inside this blue train

Counting the burned bridges

Trailing this rusted wreck

As our back pages

Scatter in the dust we left

Like a pearl necklace

Falling from around my neck

I’m riding the blue train

Over the miles yet to cover

A ghost in a hurry to fade

I’m taking it one way to nowhere

Afraid you might be there

To find me inside this blue train

Away down the low road

A ticket to an empty room

A rendezvous unknown

I’m riding the blue train

Over the miles yet to cover

A ghost in a hurry to fade

And I’m taking it one way to nowhere

Afraid you might be there

To find me inside this blue train

I’m riding the blue train

Over the miles yet to cover

A ghost in a hurry to fade

I’m taking it one way to nowhere

Afraid you might be there

To find me inside this blue train

Keyboards: Robbie Buchanan

Acoustic Guitar: Mark Casstevens

Electric Guitar: Dean Parks

Pedal Steel Guitar: Ben Keith

Bass Guitar: Leland Sklar

Drums & Percussion: Jim Keltner

Background Vocals: Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt

Arranged by Linda Ronstadt