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I'll sing you a song when the work is all done
And the boys would go out on a spree
Taking the boardwalk, from location towns
Dressed up, we were something to see
Five miles or more on those split wooden boards
By the side of the old wagon road
When I was a lad on the red Iron Range
Walking's a sure way to go
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We'd go to town and go dancing
We'd go to town for high times
Somebody there I'd been fancying
Would dance with me all through the night
Then the streetcars came in, the "Interurban"
Run by electricity
From Gilbert to Hibbing, the Mesabi Railway
Made all the towns in between
Parkville and Virginia, "Hello" and "I'll see ya"
Chisholm and Eveleth too
There are good seats for one and for all
Just pay the conductor his due.
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"Bus Andy" come calling, early in the morning
To take me out to the mine
Hibbing to Alice for fifteen cents
Was the start of the Greyhound Bus line
And it's all aboard the "D. and I. R.
To the "Zenith City" we'd go
Black smoke and cinders marking our way
To Duluth on the old railroad.
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When I took the wheel of my first automobile
And started my driving career
I spend more hours changing the tires
Then I spent going somewhere
But as I look back on the miles that I traveled
On foot, streetcar, and train
Driving or riding, the reason for going
Seems to be always the same
Refrain
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