Crack in the Box Car Door

(Russell Steagall)



A long black engine keeps a rolling along

It's wheels goin' clickety-clack

She's carrying me to war that eastern seaboard

Louisiana I ain't comin' back.



And I sit all alone in an empty box

Listen to the engine roar

And I see the world that she oughta be seein'

Through a crack in the boxcar door.



--- Instrumental ---



A hobo's life is a lonely life

And I'm restless son of a gun

So I'll keep a riding these ribbons of steel

And wait for my setting sun.



And I sit all alone in an empty box

Listen to the engine roar

And I see the world that she oughta be seein'

Through a crack in the boxcar door.



--- Instrumental ---



The engineer is pulling her down

And I reckon we ain't going to stop

And I'll be a dodgin' the man with a stick

I hear him a walkin' on top.



And I sit all alone in an empty box

Listen to the engine roar

And I see the world that she oughta be seein'

Through a crack in the boxcar door.



--- Instrumental ---



Most folks think I'm a crazy man

At all of hoboes like me

But I let the bottle that holds all

The world and I'll die happy and free.



And I reckon I'll die in an empty box

Listen to the engine roar

I'll take the last long look at the world that I love

Through a crack in this boxcar door.



I'll take the last long look at ther world that I love

Through a crack in this boxcar door...