Jumpin' a Train Songtext
von Ellis Paul

The time, 11: 33 on a Saturday, November, 1923
I′m synchronized, it's wise to keep my wits about me
My name is Roy, a one-time choir boy

Now I′m sixteen, man, and I'm nobody's toy
I′m gonna take to the wind and get this town behind me


(chorus)
I′m jumpin' a train leavin′ town
Howling whistle sounds
And I'm not looking back -- gonna tie my fate to a train track
Got a whiskey bottle tied in a corn sack
Hold on world, I′m coming, I'm hitching a ride on a north-bound train

Am I alive? Won′t somebody tell me
The Mississippi waves, what's it trying to sell me?
Mud in the banks, but no one gets thanks
when it's tracked in through the doorway

I am home grown, sewn into these britches
But I′m not spending my life digging up ditches
Like my Daddy did, and his Daddy did, and his Daddy before