In the Dodge City Yards of the Fe Stood a freight made up for the And the with his oil and waste Was the great iron beast While ten cars back in the dust A boxcar door swung And a hobo lifted his pal To on his last long ride
A lantern and the freight pulled out The engine, it gathered The pulled the throttle wide And clucked to his fiery
Ten cars back in the box The rolled a pill The of the match showed his partner's face Stark white and deathly As the train clicked on the couplin' joints A song for the ear The hobo talked to the still white His pal for many a
(Spoken) For a mighty time, we've rambled, Jack With the luck of men that With the steps for a dining room And a boxcar for a We the bulls on the Eastern route And the on the Chesapeake We travelled the narrow gauge In the days of Cripple We down thru sunny Cal On the of that old S. P. And of all you had, good and bad A half belonged to me You made me to you Jack If I lived, and you in To take you back to the old yard And bury you with your kin You to know I would keep my word you said that I was right Well, I'm keepin' my to you, pal 'Cause I'm takin' you tonight I haven't the money to you there So, I'm takin' you on the fly the decent way for a 'bo to go to the by and by I knew that that had you, Jack And that doctor, he wouldn't come He was too busy treatin' the wealthy To doctor a bum
As the rolled over its ribbons of steel Straight thru to the it sped The engineer in his high cab his eye on the rails ahead While ten cars back in the box A lonely hobo For the of old and his pal, so cold Who was his last long ride