Everybody’s got
their memories
Of places they
want to be
Now the
Christmas season’s upon us once again
I always think
about
One I could’a done without
The year that I
spent Christmas on a train
It was 18 hours
delayed
At the station I
was dismayed
The sky was
pouring snow to freezing rain
And it was
midnight Christmas Eve
When we finally
began to leave
The year that I
spent Christmas on a train
The porter and
me got drunk
From a bottle I
had in my trunk
As we rolled
along the forests and the plains
He says if
you’re ever in Montreal
I got a daughter
you could call
But this year you have to spend
Christmas
on this train
I played a lot
of solitaire
Cause there
wasn’t anybody there
Conductor tried
to cheer me up but all in vain
And
all that night & day
I had to pass
the time away
The year that I
spent Christmas on a train
I
sang some
Christmas songs
And the staff
all sang along
There was a
waitress liked me and she made it plain
But before I
could even kiss her
Had to tell that
I’d miss her
It was finally time to get off of that damn train
My brother
picked me up late
The kids
couldn’t stay up to wait
The house was
dark when we drove up the lane
I’m never gonna do it again
Next time I’ll
catch a plane
Cause I never
want to spend Christmas on a train