I was in Atlanta when the news came on TV I was washing dishes just to get my meals for free Remember grandpa talking and this he said to me As long as I live it'll never happen again When the poets hopped a ride out west Grandpa got us by just sweeping floors Now everybody's leaving town Sell the house and sell the farm But you just can't ride the boxcars anymore Now everybody's feeling all confused They went to get their money and they got refused Somebody burned 1st National down last night Smashed and looted daddy's shop downtown And grandpa said it'd never happen again The lesson it was learned real good before Now everybody's leaving town Sell the house and sell the farm But you just can't ride the boxcars anymore Looking for the few friends I have left To see if we can hitch a ride with someone else The headin' east a thousand miles or so But some one puts a knife into my back When the poets hopped a ride out west Grandpa got us by just sweeping floors Now everybody's leaving town Sell the house and sell the farm But you just can't ride the boxcars anymore Now everybody's leaving town Sell the house and sell the farm But you just can't ride the boxcars anymore
© Tom Stevens
© Tom Stevens