Rolling Western Union

<br>Music by elton john<br><br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br><br>Never released<br><br><br><br><br><br>Ive served upon this railroad for longer than I know<br><br>My father and his father did the same thing long ago<br><br>To keep the western union rolling down towards the sea<br><br>The benefits of this great line built for you and me<br><br><br><br>So rolling western union, you can roll on to the sea<br><br>Ten thousand miles of beatin steel has made a man out of me<br><br>In every state Ive driven home a rivet with my hands<br><br>Oh its rolling western union rolling onward, onward through our land<br><br><br><br><br><br>Its friends of mine who died upon the building of this line<br><br>Irishmen and chinamen and some from the british isles<br><br>Ive even seen the convicts come to work here for a while<br><br>Before the law caught up with them and sent them back to trial<br><br><br><br><br><br>I had a wife while on the job a hundred miles on back<br><br>She died in oklahoma and I laid her by the track<br><br>All thats left is a wooden cross upright on a mound<br><br>And every time the train rolls past, it rumbles in the ground