The Last Ride-Hank Snow

[ti:The Last Ride] [ar:Hank Snow] [al:Me Myself and My Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.44]The Last Ride - Hank Snow [00:01.17]Written by：Ken Devine/Sam Nichols [00:01.80] [00:03.41]In the Dodge City yards of the Sante Fe [00:05.84]Stood a freight made up for the east [00:07.71] [00:08.42]And the engineer with his oil and waste [00:11.14]Was groomin' the great iron beast [00:12.99] [00:13.55]While ten cars back in the murky dust [00:16.30]A box car door swung wide [00:17.79] [00:18.67]And a hobo lifted his pal aboard [00:21.15]To start on his last long ride [00:23.16] [00:23.77]A lantern swung and the freight pulled out [00:26.46]The engine it gathered speed [00:28.07] [00:28.98]The engineer pulled the throttle wide [00:31.33]And clucked to his fiery steed [00:33.00] [00:34.04]Ten cars back in the empty box [00:36.35]The hobo rolled a pill [00:37.94] [00:38.80]The flare of the match showed his partners' face [00:41.39]Stark white and deathly still [00:43.10] [00:43.79]As the train wheels clicked on the couplin' joints [00:46.46]A song for the ramblers' ears [00:48.14] [00:49.04]The hobo talked to the still white form [00:51.43]His pal for many a year [00:53.12] [00:55.64]For a mighty long time we've rambled Jack [00:58.04]With the luck of men that roam [00:59.41] [01:00.49]With the back door steps for a dining room [01:02.19] [01:02.85]And the boxcar for a home [01:04.63] [01:05.79]We dodged the bulls on the eastern route [01:07.93]And the cops on the Chesapeake [01:09.45] [01:10.68]We traveled the Leadville Narrow Gauge [01:12.74]In the days of Cripple Creek [01:14.06] [01:15.64]We drifted down through sunny Cal [01:17.21] [01:17.98]On the rails of the old S. P. [01:19.69] [01:20.68]And of all you had through good and bad [01:22.86] [01:23.38]A half always belonged to me [01:24.95] [01:26.36]You made me promise to you Jack [01:28.15]If I lived and you cashed in [01:30.02] [01:31.02]To take you back to the old churchyard [01:32.97]And bury you there with your kin [01:34.47] [01:36.15]You seemed to know I would keep my word [01:38.28]For you said that I was wise [01:39.78] [01:40.59]Well I'm keepin my promise to you pal [01:43.33]Cause I'm takin' you home tonight [01:45.08] [01:46.24]I hadn't the money to send you there [01:48.20]So I'm takin' you back on the fly [01:49.82] [01:50.98]It's the decent way for a Bo to go [01:53.48]Home to the by and by [01:54.72] [01:55.86]I knew that fever had you Jack [01:57.66]And that doctor just wouldn't come [01:59.51] [02:00.04]He was too busy treatin' the wealthy folks [02:01.76]To doctor a worn out bum [02:03.58] [02:05.35]As the train rolled over it's ribbon of steel [02:07.81]Straight through to the east it sped [02:09.83] [02:10.57]The engineer in his high cab seat [02:13.06]Keep his eyes on the rails ahead [02:14.67] [02:15.30]While ten cars back in the empty box [02:17.86]The lonely hobo sighed [02:19.43] [02:20.32]For the days of old and his pal so cold [02:22.81]Was taking his last long ride