I’m walking down the track, got a tear in my eye
Trying to read a letter from my home
If that trains runs me right, I’ll be home Saturday night
’Cause Im nine hundred miles from my home
And I hate to hear that whistle blow

It’s another time for me, summer on the road
Gone far away from town to town
Got drifting on my mind, I got nothin’ left this time
And Im nine hundred miles from my home

She turned away from me and I took the road that night
Found a ride south to Tennessee
I think how love is gone
I lost my right from wrong
And Im hoping some thing good will come of me