Well I ain't the type of cowboy that you'll see on TV. I wasn't near as pretty as Mama wanted me to be. Well I grew up on the ranches just cussin' all day long.
The clickety sound of the southbound freight. And the high speed hum of a passenger train. Becomes a part of the soul and a heart and the mind. Of a boy who's raised by the railroad line.
Married at 16, 2 kids by 21. But he couldn't take it. Now she's raisin' them on her own. Between the bills and the laundry. . Sometimes she's so lonely she cries.
Telephone to glory oh what joy devine. I can feel the current moving down the line. Made by God the Father for his very own. You can talk to Jesus on this Royal Telephone.
The sun is out. The sky is blue. There's not a cloud. To spoil the view. But it's rainin. Raining in my heart. . The weatherman says fine today. He doesn't know you have gone away.
Way out in the country where I used to live Lordy Lordy what I wouldn't give. To turn back the time and be a boy again and see the sun come up every morning.
I had a most distressing dream last night. I dreamed I was a crystal bird. Caught in perpetual flight. . I'd ascend and glide and descend and ride. On the wind and never alight.
When you're all alone and blue. No one to tell your troubles to. Remember me I'm the one who loves you. . And when this old world turned you down. Not a true friend can be found.
I'm going to that east pay road. I'm going to that east pay road. I'm going to the east. I going to the west. I'm going to the one that I love best. .
I ain't gonna work on the railroad. I ain't gonna work on the farm. Gonna lay around the shack. Till the mail train comes back. And I roll in my sweet baby's arms.
Now the road is rocky but it won't be rocky long, long, long. Now the road is rocky but it won't be rocky long. Another man has got my woman and gone.
In the beautiful hills in the mists of Roane County. There's where I have roamed for many long years. There's where my heart's been tendin most ever. There's where the first step of misfortune I made.
Do you think of the cross on which Jesus died. Of the blood he shed for you?. Are you prepared to meet him in that land of love. By his word, are you going to abide?.