Andrew’s Train-Track Blues

I woke up this morning’
There weren’t no sun.
My woman had left me’
For a fishmongers son.

And ooo! My life’s in ruins
No food on my plate
Only thing to console me
Is the train-tracks by the gate

Ooo, I got those train-track blues
(Oh, he’s got those train-track blues)
I wish that I was going
Out on the open tracks again
The world travels beneath me,
But I can’t escape my pain

Contemplating my life
As I look out across the tracks
My woman took all I owned
I can’t pay my income tax

And ooo! I’m stuck in a hole
Can see no escape
Look back behind me
At those train tracks by my gate

Chorus
Guitar solo - verse & chorus

All I got are my train tracks
Trains rolling past the gate
Ain’t never had no chance to prove
That my life ain’t that great.

Ooo! One day it will get better
Might even win the pools
‘Till that day comes lookin’
I’m stuck with my train track blues

Chorus

Lyrics by Barnes / Senior, Music by Barnes, 1998