[Intro]
We are climbing Jacob's ladder
We are climbing Jacob's ladder
Out of these boxcars and out of these chambers
Out of the bed where we laid with ten strangers
We are climbing Jacob's ladder
We are climbing on Jacob, Jacob's ladder

[Verse 1]
It's a fish white belly
A lump in my throat
A razor on the wire
Skin and bone
Piss and blood
In a railroad car
One hundred people
Gypsies, queers, and David's Stars

[Chorus]
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory now
This train (Yeah)

[Verse 2]
Measure the bones
And count the face
Pull out the teeth (Did you get 'em all?)
Do you belong to the human race?
Doctor, doctor
Are you unkind?
Do you shock the monkey?
Cover our eyes with clear blue skies
[Chorus]
This train is bound for glory (Ah)
This train is bound for glory (Ah)
This train is bound for glory now (Ah)
This train

[Verse 3]
Here is a dancer who has no legs
And here is a healer who has no hands
Here is a teacher who has no face
Here is a runner who has no feet
Here is a thinker who has no head
Here is a builder who has no back
Here is a writer who has no voice
These are the questions
These are the answers
Stacked like wood

[Chorus]
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory now
This train, this train (Yeah)
This train is bound for glory
This train, it carried your mothers
This train is bound for glory
This train, it carried your fathers
This train is bound for glory now
This train it, it carried your sisters
This train
This train it, it carried your brothers
Here is a teacher
This train it, it carried my sisters
Here is a writer
This train it, it carried my brothers
Here is a thinker
This train is
This train is bound for glory
[Outro]
These are the questions
Stacked like wood
These are the answers
Here is potential, and it's gone for good

Thank you.