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Lyrics for The New Timer by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN:
| | | Artist: | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | The New Timer | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 144 | | | | Lyrics: | He rode the rails since the Great Depression
Fifty years out on the skids
He said "You don't
cross nobody
You'll be all right out here kid."
Left my family in
Pennsylvania
Searchin' for work I hit the road
I met Frank in East Texas
In a freight
yard blown through with snow
From New Mexico to Colorado
California to the sea
Frank he
showed me the ropes sir
Just till I could get back on my feet
I hoed sugar beets
outside of Firebaugh
I picked the peaches from the Marysville trees
They bunked us in a barn
just like animals
Me and a hundred others just like me
We split up come the
springtime
I never seen Frank again
'Cept one rainy night he blew by me on a
grainer
Shouted my name and disappeared in the rain and wind
They found him shot dead
outside of Stockton
His body lyin' on a muddy hill
Nothin' taken nothin' stolen
Somebody
killin' just to kill
Late that summer I was rollin' through the plains of Texas
A
vision passed before my eyes
A small house sittin' trackside
With the glow of the savior's
beautiful light
A woman stood cookin' in the kitchen
Kid sat at a table with his old
man
Now I wonder does my son miss me
Does he wonder where I am
Tonight I pick my
campsite carefully
Outside the Sacramento yard
Gather some wood and light a fire
In the
early winter dark
Wind whistling cold I pull my coat around me
Heat some coffee and
stare out into the black night
I lie awake I lie awake sir
With my machete by my
side
My Jesus your gracious love and mercy
Tonight I'm sorry could not fill my
heart
Like one good rifle
And the name of who I ought to kill | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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