Golden Rocket

[Verse]

From old Montana down to Alabama

I've been before and I'll travel again

You trifling women can't keep a good man down

You dealt the cards, but you missed the play

So hit the road and be on your way

Going to board the Golden Rocket and leave this town

I was a good engine a-running on time

But baby I'm switching to another line

So honey never hang your signal out for me

I'm tired of running on the same old track

Bought a one-way ticket and I won't be back

This Golden Rocket's going to roll my blues away

Hear that lonesome whistle blow

That's your cue and by now you know

That I got another true lover waiting in Tennessee

This Midnight Special's a-burning the rail

So woman don't try to follow my trail

This Golden Rocket's going to roll my blues away

Hear her thunder on through the night

This Golden Rocket is a-doing me right

And that sunny old Southland sure is a part of me

Now from your call-board erase my name

Your fire went out, you done lost your flame

And this Golden Rocket is a-rolling my blues away

That old conductor, he seemed to know

You'd done me wrong, I was feeling low

For he yelled aloud, we're over that Dixon Line

The brake-man started singing a song

Said you're worried now, but it won't be long

This Golden Rocket is leaving your blues behind

Then the porter yelled with his southern drawl

Let's rise and shine good morning you all

And I sprang to my feet to greet the newborn day

When I kissed my baby in the station door

That whistle blew like it never before

On the Golden Rocket that rolled my blues away