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I'm the original honky tonk train

I'm the one that you see

When you're watching a western

That's me chugging by

Of the ones that you see in the films I'm the best

I’ll tell you why

Cause no other loco can ever compare

With the places I’ve been 'cause I’ve been everywhere

And I never once stopped for a moment of resting

And if my fire's burning properly the hot air oughta

Rise and go along a lot of tubes

That are surrounded by water

In the boiler till eventually it moves

On down the engine's aorta

Out to the funnel where the cloud of smoke exudes

And now the hot air in the tubes has made

The water in the boiler turn to steam hot hot hot

The steam also rises and collects inside

That large symbolic dome at the top

Top top

But if you think that now the steam is

Just as hot as it is gonna get you're wrong

Cause it's not not not

Because this is where the driver opens up

The regulator valve handle

The steam becomes alive again

And goes back through the boiler or can

Which I call it only

Cause I’ve a shortage of rhymes ending in an

So having been through the superheater tubes

The steam is hotter than ever

It was before the heat is more

You may be sure the steam now

Passes on into the piston cylinder

And pushes the piston for

Wards and backwards by means of valves

Which reciprocate in alternation

According to simple mechanical law

The piston then pushes connecting

Rods fixed to the wheels

That are set on the rails

But that's not the end of the story

Cause then all that steam

As you will have seen

Is blown out as exhaust

Through the funnel whence it can expire

Thereby increasing the draught of the fire

So now apart from some rather superfluous detail

Which doubtless will seem to you

Obvious hardly worth saying

The story's over in its basic essentials

The rest is merely overlaying

What you can see for yourself quite easily

Although I would just like to mention the

Thing on the front that always comes in handy

When you want to catch cows