The train was running
You were just a kid
It was another workin' day

It was iron and steel
With your welding machine
You're here to sweat your time away

Too many nights, hoping for changes
Too many days standing on the line
Day after day, what are your chances?
Too many days and too many nights

A house and a car
A place of your own
Got your first check in your hand

Times were hard and lean
Tried to put you down
But they helped you become a man

Too many nights, hoping for changes
Too many days standing on the line
Day after day, what are your chances?
Too many days and too many nights

Of all the things you won't forget
There's a coal-black train's whistle cry...

Too many nights, hoping for changes
Too many days standing on the line
Day after day, what are your chances?
Too many days and too many nights