Tytuł: The Texas silver zephyr

• Wykonawca: Hank Snow
• Wyświetleń: 286

  
   She was a young and pretty Coleman county farm girl
  Never been more than fifty miles from home
  I was just a drifter I was living off the land
  Spent the summer on her daddy's farm
  
  In the evening we'd walk along the railroad
  We'd hear that lonesome whistle in the night
  And she'd pretend we road the rails to Denver
  Cause' her head was full of flashin' neon lights
  
  Twas' that big old shiny diesel as it rounded Carter's bend
  Was enough to make a young girl want to roam
  She'd pretend she rode those shiny rails all around the world
  And had the Texas Silver Zephyr bring her home
  
  As summer work was over and restless got to me
  I kept talkin' 'bout the places I would go
  Then her young head got to spinnin' for the things she'd never seen
  So she followed me to Denver in the fall
  
  Then jobs got scarce in central Colorado
  And then the winter nights got awful cold
  Just one old army blanket was the only one we had
  No money for the oil to run the stove
  
  Yes that big old shiny diesel as it rounded Carter's bend
  Was enough to make a young girl want to roam
  But through all those hungry nights the only promise that I made
  I had the Texas Silver Zephyr take her home
  
  When she started feelin' bad she didn't tell me
  She had a way of keepin' problems all her own
  So I didn't know her troubles with the baby
  Before I could get a doctor she was gone
  
  Lord I know it's not the way she really wanted things to be
  In her dreams she had a pullman all her own
  But she'd be proud of me to know I kept my promise
  And had the Texas Silver Zephyr take her home
  And had the Texas Silver Zephyr take her home