The black smokestack was barking   The steam made them pistons groan   And behind that screaming whistle   You could hear that engine moan   The train was reeling and rocking   The passengers were screaming with fear   For the train was being driven   By a crazy engineer   I'm driving this engine up to the moon   He laughed as the train sped on   Then from the lips of the madman   Came a crazy railroad song      Then out from a blind crept hobo Bill   He was stealing a ride that day   I've rode the blinds on many a train   They ain't ever travelled this way   He climbed over the bend into the engine cab   Those passengers' lives to save   Then, while he fought with the madman   His weary life he gave   Poor bill spoke in a whisper   This was all they could hear   I've rode my last railroad ride   With a crazy engineer