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Back when I was ten Jim was my best friend |
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We'd go down to the station and watched the trains come in |
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The long black train the long black train |
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Some day I told my friend we'll ride that train and then |
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We'll make a fortune for ourselves and we'll ride it home again |
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The long black train the long black train |
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As we grew older Jim grew wilder than the wind |
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He robbed the bank in our hometown and they sent me after him |
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On the long black train the long black train |
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And so I cut my friend twelve men convicted him |
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Ninety nine years is what he got I'll bet it seems like a hundred to Jim |
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He'll miss the long black train the long black train |