Classic Poem

And I'm going way down
lord I'm gonna try to leave here today
Tell me that's a mean old fireman
and that train is just that way

Gotta get on that train
I said I'd even brought my trunk
Boys if you have been running around in this world
this train will wreck your mind
(your life too)

Lord, I once was a hobo
I crossed many points
But I decided I'd pull down for a fast life
and take it as it comes
(I reckon these old firemen and engineer would too)

There's so many people
have gone down today
And these fast trains north and south have
settled in nice in place

Mmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm
I want to ride your train
I said, Look here engineer
can I ride your train
He said, Look, you ought to know this train ain't mine
and you asking me in vain

Said, If you go to the Western Union
you might get a chance
(I didn't know the Western Union run no trains)
If you go to the Western Union
you might get a chance
You might to wire to some of your people
and your fare will be sent right here
(I haven't thought of it that way before)

I want to go home
and that train is done gone dead
I want to go home
that train is done gone dead
I done lost my wife and my three little children
and my mother's sick in bed

Mmmmmm please
help me win my fare
'Cause I'm a traveling man
boys, I can't stay here