"Babylon Express" genre: Acoustic Blues
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	A song for fathers lost.
	MP3.com CD: Friend of Mine - buy it! MP3.com CD: Twist of Fate - buy it! CD: Friend of Mine EP - D.A.M. CD Credits: Background Vocals : Leslie Acker Harmonica and Percussion : Jimmy Gatewood Bass and Additional Guitars : Bob Spencer
	Story Behind the Song November 22, 1950. I was due any day. My father stayed late to get everything done before taking off time around Thanksgiving so that he could be home for the birth of his third child. He took a different train that evening. A warning light was ignored and 79 families were forever changed. (The song says 77 - it was not until after I had written the song and did some more research that I discovered that the total was 79) My father died 8 days before I was born. 42 years later I began dealing with the loss. This song is one of the results. It is a song for all the fallen ones. We had recorded this song and Leslie asked if she could try something. We rolled the tape and let her have the mike. Out of nowhere she came up with the wails. Needless to say, I was worthless for the rest of the sesson. Lyrics Forty some years ago last November My father He died on a train Eight days before I was born Now I live on with his name Some fathers lose their lives in wars in foreign lands Some take their lives by their own hands Some to depression, some to Addiction, Some to stress My father died on the Babylon Express One warning light was ignored One man, one mistake 77 families forever changed from a twist of fate Here's a song for all the Fathers A song for the fallen ones Here's a song for all the Daughters And a song for all the sons Here's a song for a twist of fate And the havoc that it wrecks Here's a song for all who died On the Babylon Express Forty some years ago last November My father he died on a train Eight days before I was born Now I live on with his name

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