Click Clack! Click Clack!
This train is taking me back to my love,
Bang! bang! cling! clang!
The low moan of the whistles groan
Just tells me I'm going home.
So speed on through this lonely night –
Tomorrow the world is mine alright.
Roll and rock, rock and roll
Those wheels make music that never grows old
As I go riding on and on to you sweetheart.
Tho we meet once more with arms outstretched and hearts so light –
The dawn will bring an emptiness lets spend our love tonight.
You say that we will never part just goodbye a little while
Do you think a breaking heart can always have a smile?
No darling that's too hard to do, for tomorrow is goodbye,
We'll meet again and love again, no tears you must not cry.
Just hold me ever tightly more so than before –
And know no matter what or where, its you that I adore.
So one more precious kiss my dear and another smile to see –
Goodbye sweetheart, and don't forget a prayer each night for me.
How amazing to find something like this. My Dad was in the 1st Marine Div. in the Pacific. You don't think of those guys as poetic; but times like that bring out different emotions. Very cool to see taht side of your Grandfather.
ReplyDeleteWas the last poem when he was leaving for war, a death approaching?
ReplyDeleteBoth of the poems were at the beginning of the journal. I need to find out when my grandfather and grandmother were married. I do not know if this was prior to or after their marriage.
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