The Elephant Riders

I'll keep pulling on the towpath

You keep floating on the river

Yeah, until the day is done

Keep on keeping on the low road

Chesapeake and Ohio

Because on the higher ground you will find

Elephant riders to the northwest bring news from father

Looking like it's always closing

The Salty Dog is always open

Here, I got an I O U

Clickity clack clack, clickity clack clack

Baltimore and Ohio

Clickity clack clack, clickity clack clack roll on, roll on

On our way to Washington, where work is done by men with gavels

I heard a sound that just about removed me from my filly's saddle

Just outside of Antietam, where once there was a mighty battle

I heard the rhythm of the hammers beating the rail lines together

Elephant riders to the northwest bring news from father

Don't be eating all the hard tack

Between we two there's half a small sack

Still, we got miles to

Giddy up pony, giddy up pony

Camptown race is five miles long

Giddy up pony, giddy up pony, ride on, ride on

On our way to Washington, where work is done by men with gavels

I heard a sound that just about removed me from my filly's saddle

Just outside of Antietam, where once there was a mighty battle

I heard the rhythm of the hammers beating the rail lines together

Elephant riders to the northwest bring news from father

Elephant riders to the northwest bring news of battle