ain't nothing sadder than a slow train to nowhere nothing's as good as a fast train home nothing's as pretty as spring in virginia it gets in your blood and it stays in your bones down by the river somewhere dixieland floats like a bird on the air down on the tennessee line my heart still beats on mountain time my heart still beats on mountain time somewhere tonight a banjo is playing welcome as rain all summer long i wish i was on top of pine mountain drinking their moonshine and singing their song down by the river somewhere dixieland floats like a bird on the air down on the tennessee line my heart still beats on mountain time my heart still beats on mountain time just like the choir on sunday morning singing so loud that the whole world can hear the preacher says fire can give you redemption down by the water so clear, oh oh oh down by the river somewhere dixieland floats like a bird on the air down on the tennessee line my heart still beats on mountain time my heart still beats on mountain time my heart still beats on mountain time my heart still beats on mountain time