This train that I ride
I am walkin down this track
With tears in my eyes
Tryin to read a letter from my home

If this train run me right
I'll be home tonight
500 miles from my home
I hate that lonesome whistle song
That long train whistlin down

I am walkin down this track
With tears in my eyes
Tryin to read a letter from my home

This train that I ride
A hundred coaches long
Hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
I'm one, Lord I'm two

I hate that lonesome whistle song
That long train whistlin down
This train that I ride
Hear the wistle blow
This train that I ride

If I pawn you my wagon
Pawn you my teeth
If I pawn you my watch and chain
If this train run me right
I'll be home tonight
Five hundred miles

This train that I ride

If you miss the train I'm on
You will know that I am gone
500 miles
I'm one, lord I'm two, three lord I'm four

I hate that lonesome whistle song
That long train whistlin down
If you miss the train I'm on
You will know that I am gone
Five hundred miles

This train that I ride
If you miss the train I'm on