Uncle Virgil

Dad took us to see some family
He hadn't seen in twenty years
So we could meet 'em for the first time
Pick some tunes and drink some beers

So we drove down to the home place
There was dinner on the ground
Said Virgil's at the station
Hear that noon train whistle sound

So we went down to the deeper
To pick him up and bring him back
But the train came to screeching halt
With Virgil on the track

Uncle Virgil never came back from the station
We'd gone down to meet him on vacation
Now I guess we'll have to wait
To meet him at the pearly gates
'cos Uncle Virgil never came back from the station

So then we had to go on back
And tell his poor old wife
How down there on the train track
Her dear Virgil lost his life

She did not believe it
Had to see with her own eyes
And to this day
I still can hear the horror in her cries

Oh Virgil probably never knew what hit him
Oh I never really met him
Lord I never will forget him

Uncle Virgil never came back from the station
We'd gone down to meet him on vacation
Now I guess we'll have to wait
To meet him at the pearly gates
'cos Uncle Virgil never came back from the station

Uncle Virgil never came back from the station
We'd gone down to meet him on vacation
Now I guess we'll have to wait
To meet him at the pearly gates
'cos Uncle Virgil never came back from the station

He ate a half a mile of track
He had a crosstie through his back
Uncle Virgil never came back from the station