LAST TRAIN
(Dick Feller)


Jerry Reed - 1976





SPOKEN: When I was a baby times were kinda hard and money was 
kinda scarce. And my Mama told she used to hop a freight and 
Papa would just pitch me up to her and we'd hobo all around 
the South lookin' for work. Well after I grew up a little,
 Mama told me about those hard times and how they were the 
 happiest times of her life. And now here's a song about 
 one of those people.....

He was just an old railroad hobo 
At a time when trains were all but gone
With a tear in his eye sittin' on a railroad tie 
Talkin' to himself of goin' home
He said I've seen the world from a freight train 
I've hauled across the countryside
Now I'm just a tired, weary pilgrim 
Waitin' to take me one last ride

He said last train won't you take me to my home
Make it fast train, life is leavin' these old bones
And I'm alone, got no one to call my own
I'm lookin' for that last train for home

He said boy, I have had me some high times
And Lord, yes I've had me some low
All across these open spaces bluffed my deuces bet my aces 
Take it easy come and easy go
But this old world kept growin' up and goin' places 
Until my way of life is lost in time
Now there ain't much left for me, boy
I'm ridin' to the end of the line

He said last train won't you take me to my home
Make it fast train, life is leavin' these old bones
And I'm alone, got no one to call my own
I'm lookin' for that last train for home

Well he tipped his hat and he walked off to the mainline
Where he found an open empty car
As he pulled himself inside, settled down for the ride
I could see he wouldn't be goin' far
And I thought Lord, ain't this world just like a train yard
Where each of us are bound to roam alone
And ain't we all like some old railroad hobo 
Just lookin' for that last train for home

He said last train won't you take me to my home
Make it fast train, life is leavin' these old bones
And I'm alone, got no one to call my own
I'm lookin' for that last train for home
I'm lookin' for that last train for home






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2012)