Noirsville Tune of the Week

Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942, Oneonta, New York is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known for writing "Mr. Bojangles".

Railroad Lady

Willie Nelson

She's a railroad lady 
Just a little bit shady 
Spending her days on a train
She's the semi good looker 
But the fast rails they took her
Now she's trying just trying 
To get home again

South station in Boston 
To the stockyards of Austin
From the Florida sunshine 
To the New Orleans rain
Now that the rail packs 
Have taken the best tracks
She's trying just trying 
To get back home again

She's a railroad lady 
Just a little bit shady 
Spending her days on a train
Once a pullin' car traveler 
Now a brakemen won't have her
She's trying just trying 
To get home again

Once a high-balling loner 
Thought he could own her
And he bought her a fur coat 
And a big diamond ring
But she hung in for cold cash 
Left down on the Wabash
Never thinking never thinking 
Of home way back then

But the rails are now rusty 
And the dining car's dusty
The gold plated watches 
Are taking their gold
The railroads're dying 
And the lady is crying
On a bus to Kentucky 
And home that's her goal
She's a railroad lady...
On a bus to Kentucky and home once again