Steel Rail Blues - Gordon Lightfoot

Well I got my mail late last night

A letter from a girl who found the time

To write

To her lonesome boy somewheres in the

Night

She sent me a railroad ticket too

To take me to her lovinЂ™ arms

And the big steel rail gonna carry me

Home to the one I love

Well I bin out here many long days

I havenЂ™t found a place that I could call

My own

Not a two bit bed to lay my body on

I bin stood up I bin shook down

I bin dragged into the sand

And the big steel rail gonna carry me

Home to the one I love

Ooooh oooo oo whu hu hoo

Ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo oo

Well I bin up tight most every night

WalkinЂ™ along the streets of this old town

Not a friend around to tell my troubles to

My good old car she done broke down

Ђ™cause I drove it into the ground

And the big steel rail gonna carry me

Home to the one I love

Well I look over yonder across the plain

The big drive wheels are poundinЂ™ along

The ground

Gonna get on board and IЂ™ll be homeward

Bound

Now I ainЂ™t had a home cooked meal

And lord I need one now

And the big steel rail gonna carry me

Home to the one I love

Now here I am with my hat in hand

StandinЂ™ on the broad highway will you

Give a ride

To a lonesome boy who missed the train

Last night

I went in town for one last round

And I gambled my ticket away

And the big steel rail wonЂ™t carry me

Home to the one I love