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It's the tune after this one really but I dredged this one up for Little Miss Higgins

© 2014 Gunther Trout, Crescent Beach BC & Cambridge, Ontario

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This is a song we wrote in response to a CBC radio program by host Craig Norris called 'In the Key of C'  I hope to record a version of it with some lyric changes with the one and only Little Miss Higgins.

Sittin' on my porch

In Crescent Beach BC

The coal train's a comin'

There's just it and me

And I'm playing a song

On my guitar I'm alive!

It's Little Miss Higgins

And the Winnipeg Five

I sit and play

And it wouldn't be right

If that Montana coal train

Didn't give me a fright

It hums and roars

Rattles and fumes

It's no wonder Miss Higgins

Can write such tunes

It's a 'Heavy Train'

...'Shakes my window pane'

I play it over and over...

And over again

I leave BC for a better life

This Ontario heat sure cuts like a knife

I sit on my porch and play it more

To another train I can hear it roar

The auto plant sends 'em out each day

While I sit and watch, I pick and I play

This train aint so loud I'm glad I arrived

I'm still playin' Miss Higgins...

...And the Winnipeg Five

That's the tune that makes me dance

'Heavy Train' rattles it shakes and it rants

As the hours roll on I can pick all day

CBC Heavy Train... 

Let's give it a play!