Ellis Paul - Jumpin' a Train lyrics

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The time11:33 on a saturdaynovember1923

I'm synchronizedit's wise to keep my wits about me

My name is roya one-time choir boy

Now I'm sixteenmanand I'm nobody's toy

I'm gonna take to the wind and get this town behind me

(chorus)

I'm jumpin' a train leavin' town

Howling whistle sounds

And I'm not looking back -- gonna tie my fate to a train track

Got a whiskey bottle tied in a corn sack

Hold on worldI'm comingI'm hitching a ride on a north-bound train

Am I alive? won't somebody tell me

The mississippi waveswhat's it trying to sell me?

Mud in the banksbut no one gets thanks

When it's tracked in through the doorway

I am home grownsewn into these britches

But I'm not spending my life digging up ditches

Like my daddy didand his daddy didand his daddy before