| Lyrics: | I had a job, I had a girl
I had something going mister in this world
I got laid off down
at the lumber yard
Our love went bad, times got hard
Now I work down at the
carwash
Where all it ever does is rain
Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound
train
She just said "Joe I gotta go
We had it once we ain't got it any
more"
She packed her bags left me behind
She bought a ticket on the Central
Line
Nights as I sleep, I hear that whistle whining
Feel her kiss in the misty
rain
And I feel like I'm a rider on a downbound train
Last night I heard your
voice
You were crying, crying, you were so alone
You said your love had never
died
You were waiting for me at home
Put on my jacket, I ran through the woods
I ran
till I thought my chest would explode
There in the clearing, beyond the highway
In the
moonlight, our wedding house shone
I rushed through the yard, I burst through the front
door
My head pounding hard, up the stairs I climbed
The room was dark, our bed was
empty
Then I heard that long whistle whine
And I dropped to my knees, hung my head and
cried
Now I swing a sledge hammer on a railroad gang
Knocking down them cross ties,
working in the rain
Now don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train |
