This Train Revised

It's a fish white belly

A lump in the throat

Razor on the wire

Skin and bone

Piss and blood

In a railroad car

One hundred people

Gypsies, queers, and David's Stars

This train is bound for glory

This train is bound for glory

This train is bound for glory

This train

Measure the bones

Count the face

Pull out the teeth

Do you belong to the human race

Doctor doctor

Are you unkind

Do you shock the monkeys

Cover our eyes with clear blue skies

This train is bound for glory

This train is bound for glory

This train is bound for glory now

This train

Here is a dancer

Who has no legs

Here is a healer

Who has no hands

Here is a thinker

Who has no feet

These are the questions

Stacked like wood

Here is a teacher who has no face

Here is a runner who has no feet

Here is a builder who has no back

Here is a writer who has no voice

These are the answers

Stacked like wood

This train is bound for glory

This train is bound for glory

This train is bound for glory now

This train

This train is bound for glory (this train gonna carry my mother)

This train is bound for glory (this train gonna carry my father)

This train is bound for glory now (this train gonna carry my sister)

This train

This train gonna carry my brother (here is a teacher) (stacked like wood)

This train gonna carry my sister (here is a healer) (stacked like wood)

This train gonna carry my brother (this is a builder)

This train gonna carry my sister

This train is

This train is bound for glory

These are the questions

Stacked like wood

These are the answers