Railroad Lady

[Chorus 1]

She's a railroad lady

Just a little bit shady

Spending her days on the train

She's a semi-good looker

But the fast rails, they took her

Now she's trying, just trying

To get home again

[Verse 1]

South Station in Boston

To the stockyards of Austin

From the Florida sunshine

To the New Orleans rain

Now that the rail packs

Have taken the best tracks

She's trying, just trying

To get back home again

[Chorus 2]

She's a railroad lady

Just a little bit shady

Spending her days on the train

Once a Pullman Car traveler

Now the switchman won't have her

She's trying, just trying

To get home again

[Verse 2]

Once a high-balling loner

Thought he could own her

And he bought her a fur coat

And a big diamond ring

But she hocked them for cold cash

In a town on the Wabash

Never thinking, never thinking

Of home way back then

[Verse 3]

But the rails are now rusty

And the dining car's dusty

The gold-plated watches

Have taken their toll

And the railroads are dying

And the lady is crying

On a bus to Kentucky

And home, that's her goal

[Chorus 1]

She's a railroad lady

Just a little bit shady

Spending her days on the train

She's a semi-good looker

But the fast rails, they took her

Now she's trying, just trying

To get home again

[Outro]

On a bus to Kentucky and home

Once again