Jerry Jeff Walker - Railroad Lady

[Chorus:]

She's a railroad lady, just a little bit shady

She's spend her whole life on the trains

She's a semi good-looker, but the fast rails they took 'er

She's tryin', just tryin' to get home again

South Station in Boston to the freight yards of Austin

Florida sunshine to the New Orleans rain

Now that the rail packs have taken the best tracks

She's tryin', just tryin' to get home again

[Chorus:]

She's a railroad lady, just a little bit shady

She's spend her whole life on the trains

She's a semi good-looker, but the fast rails they took 'er

She's tryin', just tryin' to get home again

Once a high balling loner, he thought he could own 'er

He bought her a fur and a big diamond ring

She hocked them for cold cash

Left town on the Wabash

Not thinking, not thinking the whole way back then.

[Chorus]

She's a railroad lady, just a little bit shady

She's spend her whole life on the trains

She's a semi good-looker, but the fast rails they took 'er

She's tryin', just tryin' to get home again

Now the rails are all rusty and the dining car's dusty

The gold plated watches have taken their toll

Them railroads are dying, and the lady sits crying

On a bus to Kentucky now, and a home that's her goal

[Chorus]

She's a railroad lady, just a little bit shady

She's spend her whole life on the trains

She's a semi good-looker, but the fast rails they took 'er

She's tryin', just tryin' to get home again

On a bus to Kentucky and home once again

• Artist:Jerry Jeff Walker
• Album:an Must Carry On (1977)