Today the train pulled out of here that stops in my hometown

And the one I love is waiting for won't be there to step down

Right now they're braidin' rope to hang a man who's not to blame

Back home my love is waitin' she thinks I'm on that train



She'll be there if the sun is shinin' she'll be there if it's pourin' rain

She'll be there with little Jimmy a little man with my last name

But the angry town denied the cry of a stranger's alibi

She's just waitin' for the shattered dream she thinks I'm on that train



My cries out for all the unsaid things I'd like to say

The things I should have done will all be left undone today

I never knew until today that time's a precious thing

Back home my love is waitin' she thinks I'm on that train

She'll be there if the sun is shinin'...

She'll be there if the sun is shinin'...