Railroads-Holly Williams

[ti:Railroads] [ar:Holly Williams] [al:The Highway] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Railroads - Holly Williams [00:13.70]Well I used to pray to Jesus but I done backslid [00:17.33]Carrying the burdens of a preacher's kid [00:20.52]Drinking at the pulpit and healing them lame [00:23.77]Daddy was a-riding on the old death train [00:27.70] [00:28.58]I had me a woman but she took my kid [00:32.02]When I gambled all our money on a moonshine still [00:35.27]Now I drink my whiskey from a beat up flask [00:38.52]This train done departed and it's goin' fast [00:43.08]Oh the wheels they spin [00:45.33]They're faster than a speeding aeroplane on a sunny day [00:49.89]And I can't break free cause I can't believe it's me [00:56.27]So I'll take your bets [00:58.53]I'll try me walking down a narrow line with a life like mine [01:03.22]And you'll never see any boy as brave as me [01:09.41]Yeah I hope that this old railroad delivers me [01:14.22] [01:19.34]I'm still the talk of this town [01:21.06]I'm still the roll of their dice [01:22.94]I found me a lover in a whorehouse wife [01:26.14]She never knew her mama or the money I've known [01:29.33]Don't ever make a judgement if you ain't been shown [01:33.95]You never walked in my shoes [01:35.83]You never understood [01:37.45]Why I was escaping anyway that I could [01:41.01]Nobody knows I'm gonna ride these rails [01:44.26]'Til the dark comes over this prison cell [01:48.88]Oh the wheels they spin [01:50.88]They're faster than a speeding aeroplane on a sunny day [01:55.50]And I can't break free cause I can't believe it's me [02:01.88]So I'll take your bets [02:03.88]I'll try me walking down a narrow line with a life like mine [02:08.81]And you'll never see any boy as brave as me [02:15.06]Yeah I hope that this old railroad delivers me [02:20.19] [02:35.10]Well the truth came out and the church burned down [02:38.54]Daddy's heart stopped on the edge of this town [02:41.79]I'm out here searching for that boy of my own [02:45.10]Don't ever make a judgement if you ain't been shown [02:49.91]Oh the wheels they spin [02:51.79]They're faster than a speeding aeroplane on a sunny day [02:56.41]And I can't break free cause I can't believe it's me [03:02.73]So I'll take your bets [03:04.79]I'll try me walking down a narrow line with a life like mine [03:09.60]And you'll never see any boy as brave as me [03:15.54]Yeah I hope that this old railroad delivers me [03:21.54] [03:32.35]Yeah I hope that this old railroad delivers me [03:37.23]