SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More Marty Robbins lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: Marty Robbins Lyrics for Song: Southern Dixie Flyer Lyrics for Album: Country (1960-1966) [1996] At the station house one day Was a lady old and gray I could tell her heart was feelin' sad and low With a teardrop in her eye she was tryin' not to cry I determined then her story I would know I ventured a word Then a sad, sad tale I heard Of a mother who had lost her only child Yes they've taken her away These words I heard her say And they're travellin' on that Southern Dixie Flyer She was only sweet sixteen And the only joy I've seen What God has given now he takes away She'll be taken home again On that southbound railroad train To be laid there with her daddy in the grave I've no money of my own I can't even take her home But I want to be there with my heart's desire But then she could say no more As the echo drifted o'er Was the whistle of that Southern Dixie Flyer As the train pulled out of sight And the day became as night Was a scene to bring a tear to any eye Just a lady all alone Not a thing to call her own But some memories from a better day gone by I knew right away There was nothin' I could say To soothe her heart Or dry those tear dimmed eyes So I turned to walk away From the lady old and gray Whose heart was on that Southern Dixie Flyer I've no money of my own I can't even take her home But I want to be there with my heart's desire But then she could say no more As the echo drifted o'er Was the whistle of that Southern Dixie Flyer Album Lyrics: Country (1960-1966) [1996] Marty Robbins "Country (1960-1966) [1996]" 1. To Be in Love With Her 2. Lonely Too Long 3. Over High Mountain 4. Fly Butterfly Fly 5. Because It's Wrong 6. Like All the Other Times 7. Little Robin 8. It Kinda Reminds Me of Me 9. Address Unknown 10. Yesterday's Roses 11. Each Night at Nine 12. People's Valley 13. No One Will Ever Know 14. I'm Not Ready Yet 15. I Feel Another Heartbreak Coming On 16. Roving Gambler 17. Lolene 18. Just Before the Battle Mother 19. Long, Long, Ago 20. Melba from Melbourne 21. Change That Dial 22. Only a Picture Stops Time 23. Southern Dixie Flyer 24. Everybody's Darlin' Plus Mine 25. She Means Nothing to Me Now 26. Making Excuses 27. I Lived a Lifetime in a Day 28. You Won't Have Her Long 29. The Things That I Don't Know 30. Urgently Needed 31. I'll Have to Make Some Changes 32. Nine-Tenths Of The Law 33. Sorting Memories 34. Hello Heartache 35. One Window, Four Walls 36. Working My Way Through a Heartache 37. Would You Take Me Back Again 38. Do Me a Favor 39. Sixteen Weeks 40. Seconds to Remember 41. Another Lost Week-End 42. Last Night About This Time 43. This Song 44. Time and a Place for Everything 45. Sixty-Two's Most Promising Fool 46. Too Far Gone 47. April Fools Day 48. Rich Man Rich Man 49. I've Got a Woman's Love 50. Little Rich Girl 51. Never Look Back 52. I'm Beginning to Forget 53. Progressive Love 54. Hands You're Holding Now 55. Ain't Life a Crying Shame 56. Kinda Halfway Feel 57. Will the Circle Be Unbroken 58. A Little Spot in Heaven 59. Evening Prayer 60. With His Hand on My Shoulder 61. There's Power in the Blood 62. When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder 63. Almost Persuaded 64. What God Has Done 65. You Gotta Climb 66. Great Speckled Bird 67. Have Thine Own Way Lord 68. The Wine Flowed Freely 69. I Hope You Learn a Lot 70. Count Me Out 71. In the Ashes of an Old Love Affair 72. Love Is a Hurting Game 73. Worried 74. Time Can't Make Me Forget 75. My Own Native Land 76. Private Wilson White 77. Ain't I Right 78. Matilda 79. It Finally Happened 80. They'll Never Take Her Love from Me