The Gallopin Goose - C.W. McCall
Artist : “C.W. McCall”
Song title : “The Gallopin Goose”
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on a cold november mornin
Back in nineteen-thirty-seven
With an early snow a-fallin
On the three-foot tracks at ames
Came a mighty strange contraption
Known to trainmen as a motor
But to folks in colorado
She was known by another name
Up the canyons south of sawpit
Past the red cathedral spires
Cross the yellow mountain switchbacks
And the rapids far below
On the high and lofty trestles
Near the fabled mines of ophir
In the silver san juan mountains
Came a goose a-plowin snow
Chorus
With a pierce-arrow engine
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came the rio grande southern
The gallopin goose
With a pierce-arrow engine
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came number five
The gallopin goose
Twas a four-door auto-mobile
On a dozen wheels of iron
Sixteen feet of rockin boxcar
Spot-welded to her tail
Loaded down with mercantile
Ten bags a high-grade ore
Two mothers nursin babies
Seven miners an the mail
Up the side a sunshine mountain
By internal gas combustion
Eight pierce-arrow pistons pullin
fifteen thousand pounds a lead
At the snowshed on the summit
The conductor said his prayers
He declared a busted driveshaft
On the pass at lizard head
Chorus
With a pierce-arrow engine
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came the rio grande southern
The gallopin goose
With a pierce-arrow engine
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came number five
The gallopin goose
Musical interlude here
Down the three-percent to rico
In the valley of dolores
They still talk about the southern
An her flock of flyin geese
from the roundhouse at ridgway
To the depot at durango
All the tracks are gone for scrap iron
And the ganders rest in peace
Up the canyons south of sawpit
Past the red cathedral spires
Cross the yellow mountain switchbacks
And the rapids far below
On the high and lofty trestles
Near the fabled mines of ophir
In the silver san juan mountains
Theres a legend in the snow
Chorus
With a pierce-arrow engine
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came the rio grande southern
The gallopin goose
With a pierce-arrow engine
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came number five
The gallopin goose