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Hank Snow - The Last Ride Lyrics

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  • In the Dodge City yards of the Santa Fe stood a freight made up for the East
  • And the engineer with his oil and waste was grooming the great iron beast
  • While ten cars back in the murky dust a boxcar door swung wide
  • And a hobo lifted his pal aboard to start on his last long ride
  • A lantern swung and the freight pulled out the engine it gathered speed
  • The engineer pulled the throttle wide and clacked to his fiery steed
  • Ten cars back in the empty box the hobo rolled a pill
  • The flare of the match showed his partner's face stark white and deathly still
  • As the train wheels clicked on the coupling joints a song for the rambler's ear
  • The hobo talked to the still white form his pal for many a year
  • For a mighty long time we've rambled Jack wth the luck of men that roam
  • With the backdoor steps for a dining room and a boxcar for a home
  • We doget the bulls on the Eastern route and the cops on the Chesapeake
  • We traveled the Leadville narrow gauge in the days of Cripple Creek
  • We drifted down through sunny Cal on the rails of that old SP
  • And of all you had through good and bad a half always belonged to me
  • You made me promise to you Jack if I lived and you cashed in
  • To take you back to the old churchyard and bury you there with your kin
  • You seemed to know I would keep my word cause you said that I was right
  • Well I'm keepin' my promise to you pal cause I'm takin' you home tonight
  • I haven't the money to send you there so I'm takin' you back on the fly
  • It's the decent way for a 'bo to go home to the by and by
  • I knew that that fever had you Jack and the doctor he just wouldn't come
  • He was too busy treatin' wealthy folks to doctor a worn out bum
  • As the train rolled over its ribbons of steel straight to the East it sped
  • The engineer in his highcab seat kept his eyes on the rails ahead
  • While ten cars back in the empty box the lonely hobo sighed
  • For the days of old and his pal so cold who was takin' his last long ride

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