born like everyone with a slate as clean baby grew into a boy started building steam boy leared to blow it off in dangerous kind of way well fellas here he come that runaway train now hear his lonsome cry barrelin ' down that track out of controll his soul dressed in black sounds to every man thats broken the chain rolling rolling rolling like a runnaway train it ain't easy to do your best when life comes at you fast on his own so early on too young for such a task took the bull by the horn sometime that bull was mean and only at it stroking on that runnaway train
rolling rolling rolling like a runnaway train hmmmmmmmmmmmmm i hear that train a commmin hmmmmmmmmmmmmm hey porter oh porter hmmmmmmmmmmm i dont care if i do da do married young and daddy soon his life was right track something rummbled in his soul that he had lack he had to to chase that melody that fueled a childhood dream there ain't no holding back that runnaway train rolling rolling rolling like a runnaway train hmmmmmmm i hear that train a commin hmmmmmmmhey porter oh porter hmmmmmmmmm i dont care if i do da do