文本歌词

Iron Road - Old 97's Waylon Jennings
Hundred lists of reasons I keep around
Why I never had a family
Why I never settle down
Why I'd sooner in the mirror see a hobo looking low
But the reasons now escape me as I walk the iron road
Like a lot of kids I left my boyhood home
Worked a little on the railroad
Worked a little traveling on
Till the closest that I ever got
To an address or a phone
Was the day I spent my last two bits
On a one page letter home
At 21 my arches lay down flat
22 I started taking loans
But if the train will come
I'll wipe the box car dirt from off my bones
I'll curse the wheels that roll me
Roll me down that iron road
Iron road iron road you'll never give up the gold
I spent 24 hours today looking back and feeling low
24 hours of looking back can kill you I've been told
At 60 my dad left that boyhood town
Within a year my mother followed him to higher ground
I'll be the next to join them soon
As I see that engine roll
Gonna lay my head on the railroad bed
And leave that iron road
Gonna lay my head on the railroad bed
And leave that iron road
At 21 my arches lay down flat
22 I started taking loans
But if the train will come
I'll wipe the box car dirt from off my bones
I'll curse the wheels that roll me
Roll me down that iron road
I'll curse the wheels that roll me
Roll me down that iron road