Lyrics:
Tonight I've been counting railroad cars
Clinking and grinding into the dark
One of them passed with an open door
And I pictured myself jumping
everything
Chorus:
But I always thought you would come from real far
On a big jet liner or a railroad car
I searched forever to the moon and stars
But there
cigar, says everything's for sale
The house and the boat and the railroad car, the owner's gotta go to jail
He acquired these things from a life
There's a man in the window with a big cigar, says everything's for sale
The house and the boat and the railroad car, the owner's gotta go to jail
He
I'm always running behind the time
Just like this train
Shaking into town
With the brakes complaining
I used to count lovers like railroad cars
I'm always running behind the time
Just like this train
Shaking into town
With the brakes complaining
I used to count lovers like railroad cars
Somebody bet on the bay
Old muley cow comin' on to
The track, doo dah, doo dah
The bobtail fling her over his back
Oh doo dah day
Fly along like a railroad
Take you back to New Orleans
Where the music wakes up with the city
To the bars by the railroad cars
On the neon side of town
Sang a song on the city
A one night stand, another show
My guitar - a railroad car - a bus or plane
Chocolate bar - and there you are - the price of fame
If I could do
labors
In the courtroom no debate
Work on Earth has been suspended as
The King comes through the gate
All the railroad cars are empty as
They rattle down
to know that milk comes from a cow
My little boy can tell the names of all the baseball stars
I remember how we memorized the names on railroad cars
them knew fame,
Most of them knew hardship,
And died upon the plain,
They spread throughout the nation,
Rode the railroad cars,
Brought their songs
credit could I gain
Which filled me heart with longin' for the Lakes of Pontchartain.
I stepped on board of a railroad car beneath the morning sun
No credit could I gain,
Which filled my heart with longing for
The lakes of Pontchartrain.
I stepped on board a railroad car,
Beneath the morning
It's a fish white belly
A lump in the throat
Razor on the wire
Skin and bone
Piss and blood
In a railroad car
One hundred people
Gypsies
It's a fish white belly
A lump in the throat
Razor on the wire
Skin and bone
Piss and blood
In a railroad car
One hundred people
Gypsies
down under the ground
On the Road to Hell, there was a railroad car (mm)
And the car door opened and a man stepped out (mm)
Everybody looked
A one night stand, another show
My guitar - a railroad car - a bus or plane
Chocolate bar - and there you are - the price of fame
If I could do
Son House came to me in a dream
And he was singin’ - just like this
I got my own railroad car
Settin’ out there in the backyard
It’s always there -
From brick walls and bridges
We were rolling over ridges
Through valleys
Under stars
I dream of touring like Duke Ellington
In my own railroad
credit could I gain
Which filled me heart with longin' for the Lakes of Pontchartain.
I stepped on board of a railroad car beneath the morning sun
A one night stand, another show
My guitar - a railroad car - a bus or plane
Chocolate bar - and there you are - the price of fame
If I could do
Gotta Move the nation
Move it hard
Down the tracks in railroad cars
With fuel in automobiles that move us around
It's trains on tracks, yeah, rolling
to ride
Spare your foreboding for a yella-belly spine
Old men don't lend me fright
My true love calls me down
Railroad car
Take me far
Illusions dismissed
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