When I was young   I spent my summer days   Playin' on the track      The sound of the wheels   Rollin' on the steel   Took me out, took me back      Big train from Memphis   Big train from Memphis   Now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone      Like no one before   He let out a roar   And I just had to tag along      Each night I went to bed   With the sound in my head   And the dream was a song      Big train from Memphis   Big train from Memphis   Now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone      Well I've rode 'em in   And back out again   You know what they say about trains      But I'm tellin' you   When that Memphis train came through   This ol' world was not the same      Big train from Memphis   Big train from Memphis   Now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone