The Broken Down Tramp-The Carter Family

[ti:The Broken Down Tramp] [ar:The Carter Family] [al:Volume Two 1935-1941] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Broken Down Tramp - The Carter Family (卡特家族) [00:03.70]I'm a broken down tramp without money [00:07.40] [00:08.45]My clothes are all tattered and torn [00:12.27] [00:13.12]And I am so sad and so lonely [00:17.86]I wish I had never been born [00:21.58] [00:23.65]All through this wide world I have wandered [00:27.70] [00:28.37]Inquiring for something to do [00:31.90] [00:32.95]But whenever I ask for a job of work [00:37.70]They say they have none for a tramp [00:41.42] [00:51.40]Now drink was the cause of my downfall [00:55.26] [00:56.04]And the money I had I've outrun [00:59.40] [01:00.61]And the friends that were mine when I had it [01:05.11]Now pass by and call me a bum [01:08.57] [01:11.24]Now don't be too hasty to judge me [01:16.03]As I drift along with the tide [01:19.72] [01:20.58]My clothes may be ragged and dirty [01:24.75] [01:25.29]But a clean heart is beating inside [01:28.77] [01:38.98]One night on a dark lonely railroad [01:43.05] [01:43.65]A hobo all hungry and cold [01:47.52] [01:48.27]Saw an empty boxcar on the siding [01:51.93] [01:52.86]He climbed in and closed up the door [01:56.24] [01:58.55]Six months he had rode on the railway [02:02.73] [02:03.33]When the brakeman came 'round with his light [02:07.05] [02:07.97]He was shoved from the car [02:09.96]And was killed by the train [02:12.88]Because he was only a tramp [02:15.98] [02:26.36]Now young men let this be a warning [02:30.27] [02:30.94]For all you who long for the road [02:34.74] [02:35.55]Better stick to the straight life and don't be like me [02:40.11]A poor bum to die in the cold [02:43.67] [02:46.11]Now don't be too hasty to judge me [02:50.25] [02:50.78]As I drift along with the tide [02:54.35] [02:55.59]My clothes may be ragged and dirty [02:59.48] [03:00.16]But a clean heart is beating inside