(chip davis, bill fries)
On a cold november mornin
Back in nineteen-thirty-seven
With an early snow a-fallin
On the three-foot tracks at ames
Came a mighty strange contraption
Known to trainmen as a motor
But to folks in colorado
She was known by another name
Up the canyons south of sawpit
Past the red cathedral spires
cross the yellow mountain switchbacks
And the rapids far below
On the high and lofty trestles
Near the fabled mines of ophir
In the silver san juan mountains
Came a goose a-plowin snow
[chorus]
With a pierce-arrow engine,
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came the rio grande southern
The gallopin goose
With a pierce-arrow engine
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came number five, the gallopin goose
twas a four-door auto-mobile
On a dozen wheels of iron
Sixteen feet of rockin boxcar
Spot-welded to her tail
Loaded down with mercantile
Ten bags a high-grade ore
Two mothers nursin babies
Seven miners an the mail
Up the side a sunshine mountain
By internal gas combustion
Eight pierce-arrow pistons pullin
Fifteen thousand pounds a lead
At the snowshed on the summit
The conductor said his prayers
He declared a busted driveshaft
On the pass at lizard head
[chorus]
With a pierce-arrow engine
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came the rio grande southern
The gallopin goose
With a pierce-arrow engine
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came number five, the gallopin goose
[musical interlude here.]
Down the three-percent to rico
In the valley of dolores
They still talk about the southern
An her flock of flyin geese
From the roundhouse at ridgway
To the depot at durango
All the tracks are gone for scrap iron
And the ganders rest in peace
Up the canyons south of sawpit
Past the red cathedral spires
cross the yellow mountain switchbacks
And the rapids far below
On the high and lofty trestles
Near the fabled mines of ophir
In the silver san juan mountains
Theres a legend in the snow
[chorus]
With a pierce-arrow engine
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came the rio grande southern
The gallopin goose
With a pierce-arrow engine
Runnin hot and on the loose
Came number five, the gallopin goose
William Dale Fries Jr. was an American commercial artist who won several Clio Awards for his advertising campaigns. He was also a musician remembered for his character C. W. McCall, a truck-driving country singer that he created for a series of bread commercials while working for an Omaha advertising agency as an art director. Fries performed as McCall in a series of outlaw albums and songs in the 1970s, in collaboration with co-worker Chip Davis who also founded Mannheim Steamroller.
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