The Gone Dead Train

The Gone Dead Train - King Solomon Hill

And I'm going way down

I'm gonna try to leave here today

Tell 'em I believe

I'll find my way

And that train is just that way

Gotta go on that train

I said I'd even broke my job

Boys if you out and running

Around in this world this train

Will wreck your mind

Your life too

I once was a hobo

I crossed a many a point

But I decided I'd go down

The frog traveling light

And take it as comes

I reckong you know the fireman

And the engineer would too

There are so many people

Have gone down today

And this fast train north and southern

Traveling light and clear

Oooo-ooh

I wanna ride your train

I said "Look here engineer

Can I ride your train "

He said "Look here

You oughta know this train ain't mine

And you're asking me in vain"

Said "You go to the Western Union

You might get a chance"

I didn't know the Western Union

Run no train

Said "You go to the Western Union

You might get a chance"

You might get wire to some of

Your people

And your fare will be sent right here

Hadn't thought that's the way it is

I wanna go home

And that train is done gone dead

I wanna go

That train is done gone dead

I done lost my wife

And my three little children

And my mother's sick in bed

Oooo-ooh please

Help me win my fare

Cause I'm a traveling man

Boys I can't stay here