Silver Ribbons Lyrics - Waylon Jennings

(Jim Robinson - Johnny Wilson - Vern Meroney) 

Travelin' down this lonesome railroad 

Silver Ribbons with no ends 

A million miles a crossties 

Mark a million miles I've been. 

I've picked peaches down in Georgia 

Apples up in Maine 

Pulled cotton out in Texas 

Ridin' on the train. 

I was just a lad of seventeen 

My daddy turned me loose 

Silver ribbons callin' me 

Engine and caboose. 

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I can't recall my mother 

She left when I was two 

Brunetts, blondes and red heads 

Were the only love I knew. 

Don't ask me where I'm going 

Don't ask me where I've been 

Those silver ribbons will take me there 

There and back again. 

One more time back again 

Travelin' to the tune of freight wheels 

Is such a lonely sound 

Hear that lonesome whistle blow 

As leavin' another town. 

I wish someone was waitin' 

Somewhere to welcome me 

Then those silver ribbons 

Would see no more of me. 

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Don't ask me where I'm going 

Don't ask me where I've been 

Those silver ribbons will take me there 

There and back again...