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Burlington Railroad

from Acoustic Redemption by Brent David Fraser

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The second of twelve songs on my album, Acoustic Redemption. I return to my beginnings, and I've stripped away so much of the "extra", to touch raw, revealing truths of the human condition.

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back when I was seven, before we lived in the city, mama went with a man who worked on the railroad, he had a beard like a grizzly, long hair like a hippie & I remember all the stories he told, Michael was a brakeman for the Burlington Northern, Mama she loved him just the same, he spoke the laymen’s wisdom, that you learn living out in the County, told me working trains for a living, well, that’s okay

he told me about how alcohol was evil as he was sipping on a bottle of booze, he told me about how a man could send a message, said “go for it boy”, you got nothing to lose, I think he’ll live to be very old, the nights are long, they work till dawn on the Burlington Railroad,
lord help him find a pot of gold, the nights are long, he’s still working on the Burlington Railroad

he took me out to go fishing in the Northwest weather, all morning fishing a rain-dropped lake, we’d just sit there whistling, drive out down by the river, either way we’d fish all we could take, one time he got to talking, said “I know you ain’t got no father, but there’s nothing you can do about it now”, said “your Mama don’t listen to old time rock and roll no more, so I’m gonna teach you ‘cause you got to learn it somehow”,

& he sang me Johnny B. Goode all the way home, sang me all shook up and don’t be cruel, told me that’s how a man could send a message, “if you’re wise enough to never play the fool”, I think he’ll live to be very old, the nights are long, they work till dawn on the Burlington Railroad, lord help him find a pot of gold, well those nights are long, he’s still working on the Burlington Railroad

I remember the night I walked in and saw him packing, I asked him could he find a way to stay, it didn’t seem right to me for him to be leaving, he said “boy you’ll understand all this someday”, so I tried to forget him for a long time and everything he taught me up to that night, but I have learned sometimes a man’s just got to get leaving, and I remember Michael now ‘cause he was right,

he was right he was right to play my father if just for a moment, he was right to go when he had to go, he was right about how a man could send a message, funny some things you find you already know, I think he’ll live to be very old, the nights are long, they work till dawn on the Burlington Railroad, lord help him find a pot of gold, the nights are long, he’s still working on the Burlington Railroad

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from Acoustic Redemption, released March 14, 2012
Brent David Fraser - Lyrics, Melodies, Guitar, Vocals, Composition
Glen Casebeer - Producer & Technical Advisor
Robert Patrick - Producer & Engineer
Hannah Chidester - Album Art Photographer.

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Brent David Fraser Los Angeles, California

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