Illinois Lyrics

13 Feet of snow last night

Train keeps pushing through Sawtooth

On our way

For me to find

My final resting ground

The long pass over Black Fork

Alongside a Louisiana flood

Chasing shadows to the east

Home for good from the Navy

And, yesterday there was sunshine

Now there's endless moonlight

Someday, somehow

I'll see the light

On my way

Back home

To Illinois

Over there's a cross

With two stones

In the same row

As my father's, father

Virginia man

Wade, his name into

The hills of Illinois

Steaming across Big River

Just at the break of dawn

Feels like an endless sea

Lost all I see

Well if the sunshine yesterday

Gleamed so bright

Some day, somehow

I'll see the light

On my way

Back home

To Illinois

Just outside of Memphis

Hearing a slow sung song

Ringing across Murray's Blue Plains

All the way

To the streets of Bowling Green

It's the last stop at McHenry

Moonlight fireflies

Fill an August nigh sky

Memories of a past life passing by

As I'm lowered

to the platform

Save your tears

Don't cry

Cause yesterday's just fine

To have

Found

The way

Back home

To my Illinois

On my way

Back home

To Illinois

On my way

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