Get me to the train on time
Take this penny and make it
Here take this nickel make a dime
And others get away
Okay, we won't say goodbye
What is at the other end
Listen to the auctioneer
Listen to the auctioneer
Get me to the train on time
Listen, listen to the auctioneer
Listen to the barter holler
Another wife, another morning spent
What is at the other end
Here take this nickel make a dime
Into a necklace when I leave
Another wife, another morning spent
Another engine, another engine
Into a necklace when I leave
Some things are givens
That I need explained
You call it what you may
This time it's for myself
Do I stand the bargain holler?
Another engine, another engine
And I don't know another friend
Another engine, another engine
Take this penny and make it
Listen to the auctioneer
So long, so much more
Another engine, another engine, and I
Listen to the bargain holler
And I don't know another friend
We never wrote the reasons
