Bob Seger

Released: February 25, 1980

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

[Verse 1]
Well the big train keeps on rolling
Rolling on down the track
And the way she's moving buddy
I don't believe she's ever coming back
The fireman's smoking a big cigar
Sipping Lafite Rothschild Bordeaux
And the engineer's so happy
He's just a-letting that whistle blow

[Chorus]
She keeps a-rolling
She keeps a-rolling
She keeps a-rolling on proud and fine
She keeps a-rolling
She keeps a-rolling
Down that long twin silver line

[Verse 2]
Well she just blazed through Chicago
Nonstop to L.A.
And the way she's steaming buddy
You better not get in her way
She's got the finest fastest pulling twin diesels
She's got ninety-three cars in tow
She's gonna be on time
All the way down the line
Come the rain hail sleet or snow

[Chorus]
She keeps a-rolling
She keeps a-rolling
She keeps a-rolling on right on time
She keeps a-rolling
She keeps a-rolling
Down that long twin silver line, yeah
Rolling on down the line, oh hey!

[Bridge]
And she just passed in Chicago
Rolling into Kansas too
Rolling into Denver
Doing all she'll do, yeah
And she hangs a big left in Salt Lake City
Southwest to the Nevada line
Rolling into California
Right on time, yeah
Rolling on down the line

[Guitar Solo: Pete Carr]

[Chorus]
She keeps a-rolling
She keeps a-rolling
She keeps a-rolling on proud and fine
She keeps a-rolling
She keeps a-rolling
Down that long twin silver line, yeah

[Outro]
She keeps a-rolling on down the line
She keeps a-rolling on down the line, oh yeah
She keeps a-rolling on down the line
Rolling on right on time
Rolling on down the line
Down that long twin silver line
Three times:
Oh oh oh
All right
Again now, ooh
All right
Rolling, rolling
Rolling on down the line
Rolling, rolling
Rolling on down the line
Oh hey

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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