Play a Train Song-Todd Snider

[ti:Play a Train Song] [ar:Todd Snider] [al:East Nashville Skyline] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Play a Train Song - Todd Snider [00:17.58]A smoke a long black cadillac [00:20.30]The engine's winding down [00:22.70] [00:23.75]He'd park it up on the sidewalk [00:25.79]Like he owned the whole damn town [00:28.66]I'd hear him talkin' to some chick [00:31.00] [00:31.60]Through a thick ghost of smoke [00:34.84]Through a thicker haze of [00:36.47]Southern comfort and coke [00:40.38] [00:41.34]Say girl you're hotter than a hinge [00:44.07] [00:44.68]Hangin' off the gates of hell [00:47.01] [00:47.69]Don't be afraid to turn to me [00:49.73] [00:50.34]Babe if he don't treat you well [00:53.48]And by he he meant me [00:56.19]So I laughed and I shook his hand [00:58.69] [01:00.85]He'd laugh a little bit louder as he'd [01:04.16]Yell up at the band: [01:06.61]Play a train song [01:09.07] [01:09.95]Pour me one more round [01:13.23]Make 'em leave my boots on [01:15.26]When they lay me into the ground [01:17.64]I am a runaway locomotive [01:21.54]Outta my one track mind [01:24.71] [01:25.51]And I'm lookin' for any kinda trouble that I can find [01:29.96] [01:31.06]I got this old black leather jacket [01:33.90]I got this pack of marlboro reds [01:36.82]I got this stash here in my pocket [01:39.63]I got these thoughts in my own head [01:42.46]The right to run until I gotta walk [01:45.85]Or until I got to crawl [01:49.29] [01:50.18]This moment that I'm in right now [01:53.27]And nothing else at all [01:56.02]Play a train song [01:58.49] [01:59.32]Pour me one more round [02:01.65] [02:02.55]Make 'em leave my boots on [02:04.61]When they lay me into the ground [02:07.20]I am a runaway locomotive [02:10.99]Outta my one track mind [02:14.07] [02:39.88]In the television blizzard lights [02:42.85]I looked around this place [02:44.78] [02:45.40]I found a cold beer on the sofa [02:47.35] [02:48.18]A little smile across his face [02:50.58]And though I tried with all of my sadness [02:53.72]Somehow I just could not weep [02:57.81] [02:58.47]For a man who looked to me like [03:01.23]He died laughin' in his sleep [03:03.99]Sayin' a train song [03:07.08] [03:07.61]Drinkin' one last round [03:10.79]We made 'em leave his boots on [03:12.92]On the day they layed him down [03:15.39]He was a runaway locomotive [03:19.22]Out of his one track mind [03:22.43] [03:23.18]Play a train song [03:26.08]Play a train song [03:28.95]Play a train song