Ellis Paul - Jumpin a Train текст песни

The time, 11:33 on a saturday, november, 1923

Im synchronized, its wise to keep my wits about me

My name is roy, a one-time choir boy

Now Im sixteen, man, and Im nobodys toy

Im gonna take to the wind and get this town behind me

(chorus)

Im jumpin a train leavin town

Howling whistle sounds

And Im not looking back -- gonna tie my fate to a train track

Got a whiskey bottle tied in a corn sack

Hold on world, Im coming, Im hitching a ride on a north-bound train

Am I alive? wont somebody tell me

The mississippi waves, whats it trying to sell me?

Mud in the banks, but no one gets thanks

When its tracked in through the doorway

I am home grown, sewn into these britches

But Im not spending my life digging up ditches

Like my daddy did, and his daddy did, and his daddy before