The Songs He Sang

900 Miles: Lyrics

As performed by Cisco Houston

Woody Guthrie

Appears on:

LP 900 Miles and other Railroad Songs
LP The Cisco Special
CD The Greatest Songs Of Woody Guthrie
CD American Folksay: Ballads & Dances, Volumes 1, 2, 3, & 4 (Instrumental version from an old 78)

I am walkin' down this track
I've got tears in my eyes
I'm tryin' to read a letter from my home

An' if  this train runs me right
   I'll be home Saturday night
'Cause I'm nine hundred miles from my home
Lord I hate to hear
   that lonesome whistle blow

This train I ride on
   is a hundred coaches long
Well, you can hear her whistle blow
   a million miles

An' if  this train runs me right
   I'll see my woman on saturday night
'Cause I'm nine hundred miles from my home
Lord I hate to hear
   that lonesome whistle blow

I will pawn you my wagon
And I will pawn you my team
I will pawn you my watch and my chain

An' if  this train runs me right
   I'll be home Saturday night
'Cause I'm nine hundred miles from my home
Lord I hate to hear
   that lonesome whistle blow
That long lonesome train whistlin' down

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