text: Music by elton john
  Never released
  Ive served upon this railroad for longer than i know
  My father and his father did the same thing long ago
  To keep the western union rolling down towards the sea
  The benefits of this great line built for you and me
  So rolling western union, you can roll on to the sea
  Ten thousand miles of beatin steel has made a man out of me
  In every state ive driven home a rivet with my hands
  Oh its rolling western union rolling onward, onward through our land
  Its friends of mine who died upon the building of this line
  Irishmen and chinamen and some from the british isles
  Ive even seen the convicts come to work here for a while
  Before the law caught up with them and sent them back to trial
  I had a wife while on the job a hundred miles on back
  She died in oklahoma and i laid her by the track
  All thats left is a wooden cross upright on a mound
  And every time the train rolls past, it rumbles in the ground