The correct title is Life is Like a Mountain Railroad or simply Mountain Railroad.
This was a favorite drinking song in the H2 ( H square), my college residence house. Many a Saturday night and uncountable bottles of Bud purchased from the only beer dispensing machine in Raleigh were consumed singing this and other such.
Another of our favorites was I didn’t know God made Honkey Tonk Angels and a host of Flatt and Scruggs songs.
I was raised in New England and beer was the drink at most every event.