Lonesome Whistle

Lonesome Whistle - Frank Ifield

I was riding number 9

Heading south from caroline

I heard that long lonesome whistle blow

Got in trouble had to roam

Left my women and left my home

I heard that long lonesome whistle blow

Just a kid acting smart

I went and broke my darling's heart

I guess I was just too young to know

They took me off the georgia main

Locked me to a ball and chain

I heard that long lonesome whistle blow

All alone I bears the shame

I'm a number not a name

I heard that long lonesome whistle blow

All I does is sit and cry

When the evening train goes by

I heard that long lonesome whistle blow

He'll be locked there in this cell

Until his body's just a shell

And his hair turns whiter than snow

I'll never see that women I man

I'm in georgia doing time

I heard that long lonesome whistle blow

I heard that long lonesome whistle blow

Woo