Name: I Still Wave at Trains
Duration: P00H04M09S
Description: There were railroad tracks on the far side of an open field across the street from where I once lived. When I heard the train horn, I’d run across the field carrying my son and if we got there fast enough, we’d wave at the engineers as the train passed. They waved back. The tracks are still there, the trains still pass. My son is grown and the field is gone, but I still wave at trains.

I Still Wave at Trains

from 'Bout Time by Chris Huff

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There were railroad tracks on the far side of an open field across the street from where I once lived. When I heard the train horn, I’d run across the field carrying my son and if we got there fast enough, we’d wave at the engineers as the train passed. They waved back. The tracks are still there, the trains still pass. My son is grown and the field is gone, but I still wave at trains.

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The sneakers momma bought me back in ’63 are gone / Haven’t seen a parade in years but time still marches on / I left an awful lot behind, things never stay the same / I’m staring forty in the face, but I still wave at trains / Someone calls me daddy, someone’s diapers I still change / I don’t walk like I once did in the gentle summer rains / Seems I’m always busy, in a rush or running late / I know a child’s alive inside ‘cause I still wave at trains / Southbound locomotives, northbound engineers / I still stop to watch ’em roll after all these years / The throbbing of the engines as they thunder down the line / Pulls a young boy’s fascination and an old boy back in time / The sneakers momma bought me back in ’63 are gone / The kid that laced them up is grown now a man must carry on / The road’s not hard to follow through those gentle summer rains / I know where to find the boy ‘cause I still wave at trains / Oh, yes, I still wave at trains / Don’t you know that I still wave at trains.

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from 'Bout Time, released May 30, 2020
Charlie Hollis, locomotives; Don Bacoch, bass; Chris Huff, vocals & guitar

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Chris Huff Los Angeles, California

Chris Huff, plays original songs influenced by the likes of Guy Clark, John Prine, and Townes Van Zandt. Chris cut his musical teeth on the Austin bar circuit, opening for Butch Hancock, Bill & Bonnie Hearne, Shake Russell, Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley, Junior Brown, and others. He was selected twice to play in the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Concerts and is currently based in Los Angeles. ... more

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