Southbound Amtrak

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I was settin' on a bench outside the station
Taking in golden rays of sunsation
Our train was late getting to the border
Held up by US law and order

A big man came and set down beside me
Asked me what time it might be
I told him it was later than you think man
And he turned and lit another cigarette

Waitin by the tracks he told his story
Of a time when he was in his glory
But a roughneck stole his girl and money
Now he’s got a plan to get back his honey.

Hey hey now don’t you look back
Board that Southbound Amtrak
Ride it to Manhattan
Listening to the sound of clicky clackin

He stared down that Southbound Amtrack
If he boarded it he may never get back
Cause he’d earned two years in a California prison
But he jumped the wall before one month was done

He watched as the border agents spied us
And wondered if we’d make it across
Or would they check their facts and records
And take us back shackled and cuffed

The steel arch bridge crosses at Niagara
Into the American Diaspora
This time the big man turned away and went home
And left me to board that train alone.

Hey hey now don’t you look back
Board that Southbound Amtrak
Ride it to Manhattan
Listening to the sound of clicky clackin

Hey hey now don’t you look back
Board that Southbound Amtrak
Ride it to Manhattan
Listening to the sound of clicky clackin
Listening to the sound of clicky clackin
Listening to the sound of clicky clackin

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