Railroads

Album: The Highway (2013)
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  • Well I used to pray to Jesus but I done backslid
    Carrying the burdens of a preacher's kid
    Drinking at the pulpit and healing them lame
    Daddy was a-riding on the old death train

    I had me a woman but she took my kid
    When I gambled all our money on a moonshine still
    Now I drink my whisky from a beat up flask
    This train done departed and it's goin' fast

    Oh the wheels, they spin, they're faster than a speeding aeroplane on a sunny day
    And I can't break free cause I can't believe it's me
    So I'll take your bets, I'll try me walking down a narrow line with a life like mine
    And you'll never see any boy as brave as me
    Yeah I hope that this old railroad delivers me

    I'm still the talk of this town, I'm still the roll of their dice
    I found me a lover in a whorehouse wife
    She never knew her mama or the money I've known
    Don't ever make a judgment if you ain't been shown

    You never walked in my shoes, you never understood
    Why I was escaping anyway that I could
    Nobody knows I'm gonna ride these rails
    'Til the dark comes over this prison cell

    Oh the wheels, they spin, they're faster than a speeding aeroplane on a sunny day
    And I can't break free cause I can't believe it's me
    So I'll take your bets, I'll try me walking down a narrow line with a life like mine
    And you'll never see any boy as brave as me
    Yeah I hope that this old railroad delivers me

    Well, the truth came out and the church burned down
    Daddy's heart stopped on the edge of this town
    I'm out here searching for that boy of my own
    Don't ever make a judgment if you ain't been shown

    Oh the wheels, they spin, they're faster than a speeding aeroplane on a sunny day
    And I can't break free cause I can't believe it's me
    So I'll take your bets, I'll try me walking down a narrow line with a life like mine
    And you'll never see any boy as brave as me
    Yeah I hope that this old railroad delivers me

    Yeah I hope that this old railroad delivers me Writer/s: HOLLY WILLIAMS
    Publisher: MUSIC ADMIN, INC.
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