Boxcars
Joe Ely

Well I gave all my money to the banker this month
Now I got no more money to spend
She smiled when she saw me comin' through that door
When I left she said, Come back again.
I watched them lonesome boxcar wheels
Turnin' down the tracks out of town
And it's on that lonesome railroad track
I'm gonna lay my burden down.

I was raised on a farm the first years of my life
Life was pretty good they say
I'll probably live to be some ripe ol' age
If death'll stay out of my way
This world can take my money and time
But it sure can't take my soul
I'm goin' down to the railroad tracks
Watch them lonesome boxcars roll

There's some big ol' Buicks at the Baptist church
Caddilacs at the Church of Christ
I parked my camel by an ol' haystack
I'll be lookin for that needle all night
There ain't gonna be no radial tires
Turnin' down the streets of gold
I'm goin down to the railroad tracks
And watch them lonesome boxcars roll

Now if you ever heard the whistle on a fast freight train
Beatin' out a beautiful tune
If you ever seen the cold blue railroad tracks
Shinin' by the light of the moon
If you ever felt the locomotive shake the ground
I know you don't have to be told
Why I'm goin down to the railroad tracks
And watch them lonesome boxcars roll.

Yeah, I'm goin down to the railroad tracks
Watch them lonesome boxcars roll


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  (Don't Put A) Lock on My Heart   95 South   A Flood on Our Hands   All Just to Get to You   All That You Need   B.B.Q And Foam   Because of the Wind   Behind the Bamboo Shade   Boxcars   Carnival Bum   Cool Rockin' Loretta   Cornbread Moon   Crazy Lemon   Crazy Lemon [*]   Dame Tu Mano   Dig All Night   Every Night About This Time   Everybody Got Hammered   Fate With a Capital F   Fightin' for My Life   Fingernails   For Your Love   Gallo del Cielo   Goodnight   Goodnight Dear Diary   Grandfather Blues   Gulf Coast Blues   Highways and Heartaches   Honky Tonk Masquerade   I Didn't Even Do It   I Gotta Find Ol' Joe   I Had My Hopes Up High   I Saw It in You   I Will Lose My Life   I'll Be Your Fool   I'm a Thousand Miles from Home   I'm on the Run Again   If I Could Teach My Chihuahua to Sing   If You Were a Bluebird   Imagine Houston   Jazz Street   Johnny's Blues   Letter to L.A.   Letter to Laredo   Lipstick in the Night   Locked in a Boxcar With the Queen of Spain   Lord of the Highway   Love Is the Beating of Hearts   Mardi Gras Waltz   Maybe She'll Find Me   Me & Billy the Kid   Musta Notta Gotta Lotta   My Baby Thinks She's French   My Eyes Got Lucky   Nacho Mama   No Rope, Daisy-O   Pins and Needles   Ranches and Rivers   Rich Man, Poor Boy   Roll Again   Row of Dominoes   Run Little Pony   Run Preciosa   Screaming Blue Jillions   Settle for Love   She Collected   She Finally Spoke Spanish to Me   She Gotta Get the Gettin'   She Never Spoke Spanish to Me   Silver City   Sister Soak the Beans   Sleepless in Love   Standin' at the Big Hotel   Streets of Sin   Sunday Morning Coming Down   Tennessee's Not the State I'm In   That's Why I Love You Like I Do   The Road Goes on Forever   Treat Me Like a Saturday Night   Treat Me Like a Saturday Night [*]   Twisty River Bridge   Up on the Ridge   West Texas Waltz   When the Nights Are Cold   Whenever Kindness Fails   Whiskey and Women and Money to Burn   Wind's Gonna Blow You Away   Workin' for the Man

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