Billy Jack Washburn-Johnny Paycheck

[ti:Billy Jack Washburn] [ar:Johnny Paycheck] [al:Honky Tonk Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.66]Billy Jack Washburn – Jonny Paycheck [00:04.03] [00:05.41]From Maine to San Francisco for years Ive rode the rails [00:12.33] [00:17.39]Coast to coast and border to border I've been in about every jail [00:23.78] [00:26.47]One night around the Golden Gate I caught a friend [00:30.21] [00:31.96]And lying in the bottom of the boxcar was a man named Billy Jack Washburn [00:39.72] [00:40.60]Through the rain and the wind the train was flying [00:43.85]I knew the man was lying there dying [00:46.10] [00:46.72]I had to try to save a man with nothing but my two bare hands [00:52.00]And I did He was just a kid (Just a kid) [00:59.74] [01:05.05]Now me and Billy Jack We laid around a few Hobo comps for a while [01:12.67] [01:16.73]Till Billy Jack got his strength back and the sunshine gave him back his smile [01:23.47] [01:26.28]We decided that we would leave and head on down to New Orleans [01:31.42]And we did me and the kid (Me and the kid) [01:37.42]But things weren't like they were before I never had a friend jumping' from the door [01:43.89]Treated him like I was his dad and gave him everything I had which was nothing [01:50.34] [01:52.03]Except the love for a friend and a friend he was but I lost him (Lost him) [01:57.07] [01:58.88]Billy Jack Washburn was his name I lost him down around Jacksonville [02:06.66]When he fell from the train I rolled off and I hit the ground [02:15.78]I picked his body up and carried it all the way back to town [02:20.85] [02:22.16]He was a friend of mine (Friend of mine) [02:28.88] [02:34.31]Now here I am in Macon Georgia to help lay Billy Jack in the ground [02:41.52] [02:46.15]And by the way Macon Georgia is my home town [02:53.14] [02:55.33]When I picked his milk fold up I saw a picture of his mama and her name [03:02.85] [03:03.47]And I cried like a baby (And I cried) Cos' his mama and my mama were the same [03:14.81]Well I haven't been home in 26 years [03:18.30]When I do come home it has to be like this [03:22.93] [03:24.05]Sometimes old lady fate she deals a terrible kiss [03:30.24] [03:32.99]Billy Jack Washburn was his so called name [03:37.80] [03:38.55]I lost him down around Jacksonville when he fell from the train [03:43.49] [03:44.86]But I lost more than a friend I'll never see my brother again (again)