"Last Train" lyrics

When I was a baby
Times where kinda hard
And money was kinda scarce
My mama told me she used to hop a freight
And papa'd just pick me up to her
And we'd hobo all around the south lookin' for work
Well after I grew up a little
Mama told me about those hard times
And how they were the happiest times of her life
So here's a song about mothers keep

He was just an old rebel hobo
At a time when trains were all but gone
With a tear in his eye, sittin' on a railroad tie
Talking to himself about going home
He said, I've seen the world from a freight train
I've hauled across the country side
Now I'm just a tired old weary pilgrim
Waitin' to take me one last ride

He said, last train won't you take me to my home
Make it fast train, I believe in these old bones
And all alone, I've got no one to call my own
I'm lookin' for that last train home

Said boys I have had me some high times
And I have had some low
All across these open spaces
Bluff my deuces, bet my aces
Take them easy come and easy go
But this old world kept growing up
And goin' places until my way of life was lost in time
Now there ain't much left for me, boy
I'm ridin' to the end of the line

He said, last train won't you take me to my home
Make it fast train, I believe in these old bones
And all alone, I've got no one to call my own
I'm lookin' for that last train home

Well he tipped his hat and
He walked off to the main land
Where he found an open empty car
As he pulled himself inside
Settled down for the ride
I could see he wouldn't be goin' far
And I thought, Lord ain't this life like a train yard
Where each of us are bound to roam alone
And ain't we all like some old railroad hobo
Lookin' for that last train home

He said, last train won't you take me to my home
Make it fast train, I believe in these old bones
And all alone, I've got no one to call my own
I'm lookin' for that last train home
I'm a'lookin' for that last train home