Template:Just Another Mystery

Starting out from the mortuary platform

While the band played a lachrymose refrain

They hung two green flags on the engine

They swore it was a solid gold train

The people lined up by the side of the tracks

As the carriage rolled away in the dark

Through the long hours of uncertainty

He was the hammer who beat out the spark

Hammer and anvil, tears and pain

Stoke up the coals and rattle the chains

Don't cry anymore

It's just another mystery

They packed away his manuscript and metronome

His jackdaw quill pen was lost

His pocket watch was closed

The eviction notice was secretly burned

While they threw dice for the rest of his clothes

The train left the Grand Central Station

Bound for Washington, D.C.

But instead flew straight 'cross the ocean

For Vienna, Stockholm and Paris

Kings, queens, the pashas and potentates

Assembled to wish him god speed

But when you've been resting as long as him

It's not really something you need

Everywhere he went they had a word for him

On his way back to where he belonged

They stood him up, they gathered around and took photographs

While a ventriloquist sang all of his songs

They said that we're sending a free man

From his long-lost country of birth

Now that we've had the best of him

They can put him in their loving earth

When they heard they were sending the body back

They gathered from near and from far

Another flag, another band, another banner

Saying "Welcome home, whoever you are"

There was a joke, but nobody spoke

The graveyard decidedly odd

Where all the dead people turn into big trees

Like hands pointing fingers at God

Hammer and anvil, tears and pain

Stoke up the coals and rattle the chains

Don't cry anymore

It's just another mystery train

All aboard!