The Ballad of Southern Pacific

Words and Music by Steve Spurgin
Discovered the Southern Pacific Theme Song. Added it to images of numerous locomotives of all ages.
NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE
THE BALLAD OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC
When they drove that golden spike in 1869
It opened up the American West to the Southern Pacific Line.
A thousand miles of wilderness, heard the hammer's ring
And voices of the gandy dancers sing.
CHORUS:
Southern Pacific, roll on, roll on.
From Chicago through the Rockies, America's your home.
Portland to New Orleans, all along the golden crest
Southern Pacific, the spirit that won the West.
On spikes and ties laid down in time to some old fiddler's reel,
We're forever stitched together with a million miles of steel.
Right on the clock, the rolling stock helps keep this country great.
As long as there's a U.S.A., SP will haul the freight.
REPEAT CHORUS
The Cotton Belt, the T&L, the Denver Rio Grande...
With all the others proud and strong, coupled hand to hand.
Pulling every grade and curve, a single heart and mind,
Making sure the job gets done out on the SP line.
REPEAT CHORUS
Roll on big iron lady through the mountains and the plains
Roll on men and women with tradition in your veins
Keep the drive wheels turning all across this great land
Blow that whistle loud and long, the future's in our hands.
REPEAT CHORUS