Lyrics:
Lord, I want to go home
SPOKEN: You know, I rode a freight train north to Detroit city,
And after all these years I find I've just been wasting my
along the southbound odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms & fields
Passin' graves that have no name, freight yards
along the southbound odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms & fields
Passin' graves that have no name, freight yards
night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines
Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years
But by day, I make the cars,
And by night I make the bars,
If only they could read between the lines!
[Spoken]
You know,
I rode a freight train
along the southbound odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms & fields
Passin' graves that have no name, freight yards
the cars, by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Lord, how I want to go home
I rode a freight
they could read between the lines
[Spoken]
'Cause you know I rode a freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find I've just
they could read between the lines
('Cause you know I rode a freight train north to Detroit City)
(And after all these years I find I've just been
by day I make the cars and by night
I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines
Because, you know
I caught a freight train to Detroit
up one day, Lord to find that I was by myself
With dreams of Georgia cotton and California wine
Sunday mornin' found me standin' 'neath
ached inside to wander
So hopped a freight in Waycross and I rode it to LA
I met a girl known on the Strip as San Francisco's Mabel Joy
Destitution's
they could read between the lines
‘cause you know I rode a freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find I've just been
just a Country boy
On the last train to Tupelo
From the Jamboree and one night stands
Tearing it up in Scotty's band
Past the cotton fields
I'll make him see the light
Bitch they on the train of freight (Freight)
Off too many drug lil bitch I reach another height (Chyeah)
Pressure way too
night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines
You know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I
day I make the cars and by night I make all the bars
If only they could read between the lines
Now you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit
Lord, I want to go home
You know, I rode a freight train north to Detroit city,
And after all these years I find I've just been wasting my time,
So I
they could read between the lines
‘cause you know I rode a freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find I've just been
and we'll be there by mornin'
Thru the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
And the steel
Memphis, Tennessee
Halfway home and we'll be there by mornin'
Thru the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea
But all the towns and people seem
{And Elizabeth Cotton is a writer of very fine songs
Such as, 'Freight Train' and 'Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie'
And she wanted this song to be sung by
{And Elizabeth Cotton is a writer of very fine songs
Such as, 'Freight Train' and 'Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie'
And she wanted this song to be sung by
Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade
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