Rock Island Line Lyrics

Lyric discussion by mgajosh 

Cover art for Rock Island Line lyrics by Lead Belly

That Rock Island Line train, coming back this a-way. A traindriver, he pulls up to the toll-gate and the man hollers nicely what all he had on board, and he said:

I got cows, I got horses, I got hogs, I got sheep, I got goats, I got all live stock, I got all live stock!

Well, they said, you’re all right boy, you don’t have to pay no toll, and they gonna let that train on by. So, he goes on through the toll gate and as he goes through, he starts pickin’ up a little bit of speed, pickin’ up a little bit of steam. He got on through and he turns to look back at the man, and he says:

I done fooled ya! I fooled you! I got pig iron, I got pig iron! I got pig iron