G D
Brian was just starting a delicate song
C
at a camp in Winfield, Kansas
G D
when a freight train came along.
We couldn’t hear a note / from that funky harp guitar
We threw curses at that train whistle / but they wouldn’t go that far.
Then inspiration struck us like a hammer on a spike
We could silence that whistle till forever and a night.
It would be four miles long from banner to south pine
But that whistle would blow for the very last time
refrain C - G - D - Em - C - D - G
The bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge,
The bridge that bluegrass built.
20,000 regulars and 100,000 more
who call the Walnut Valley their home and so much more
started fundraising with banjos and mandolins
concert across the country, the money rolled on in.
Concrete from Iola, rebar from Garnett
gravel from Kincaid, all donated you bet.
It took them 2 full years, but Sante Fe said OK
That train got switched to higher ground to a Bluegrass parade.
refrain
A red-haired mom was yelling at her teenage girl
like only that right of passage can prompt in this world
When the call came from Stage 5, it finally was their turn
Banjo in her hand, her daughter’s fiddle began to burn.
They raced each other madly to an accelerando
then a gently song on her fiddle brought a tear and a glow.
refrain
Now on stage 11 we listen to songs penned
by pickers in the campground not dead Englishmen.
When the trains come into town we all woo woo happily
cause instead of A#Diminished it’s always the key of C. Woo Woo.
refrain
Woo Woo...The bridge that bluegrass built.
Words and Music by David B. Hakan
All rights reserved 9-19-2014
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