Frisco RoadUtah PhillipsStarlight On The RailsBanjo tuned E, capo 3, Key of CFrisco RoadC FA long lonesome go rolling down the Frisco Road,C G7Every mile feeling I was all aloneC FIn the places where I have seen summer's fat and winter's leanC G7 CAnd don't you know I wish I could go back homeChorus:F CI don't know where i left it though, its always on my mindG7I ask the same old questions all the timeC FIs the old town still the same? Does anybody know my name?C F G7 CThe years slip by like the numbers on an endless highway sign(spoken)Standing here in the breakdown lane, don't think I'll make ittoday;And I wish the road was a big freight train, blowing and rolling myway.I know the rain wouldn't seem so cold on the top of an old boxcar,And wherever it was I was trying to go, it wouldn't seem half sofar.I remember the Roper yard cafe and a pretty little beanery queen;She gave those jailhouse spuds away to a bum she'd never seen.Well, I tipped her with a couple of rhymes on the back of aplacemat there,And I've thought about her plenty of times when I couldn't bum asquare.Or the time we rode on a piggy-back, punching the Great Divide;The blowing snow had iced the track and the train got stuck inside;The diesel fumes they got so thick I thought we'd all be gassed,Then they sanded her out just in the nick and punched her throughat last.Now I don't claim to be too proud to shag a ride on my thumb,But I'd trade this whole hitch-hiking crowd for a honest oldrailroad bum;And if there ever comes a day when the rails have gone to rust,I'll put my jug and bindle away and give up in disgust.Beyond these gentle Eastern hills and the soft New England skyDo the highball whistles echo still where the mile-long blazersfly?Sitting here by the toll road gates, I wonder as I rest,Do the heavy, clanking, lonely freights still thunder a-way outWest?(sung)Have you seen the morning sun putting shadows on the runAs you were climbing out of some old reefer hole,High above the roaring wheels? Then you know just how it feelsTo ride the tops and watch the prairies roll.
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