Nanci Griffith - Morning Train lyrics

(Suzy Elkins - Robert Field)

There's a morning train

Headed for New Orleans

Carrying bussiness men and week day shoppers

I have sixteen bucks and a dollar in change

That's not bad price for a one way ride

On a morning train

I give you my devotion

You left me heartsick

Oh, you couldn't had hurt me more

Not workin' with a night stick

Now I'm tired of sharin' this bed of nails

So come first light I'm gonna be right

With the mornin' train

Chorus

So goodbye lover, I'm goin' undercover

Crescent City's gonna swallow me

Gonna skip my ring 'cross the Mississippi River

When it sinks I wont' feel a thing

When it sinks I won't feel a thing

I'm gonna be stayin'

With a short time acquaintance

When I met him he was playin'

On the Gulf Breeze Circuit

He didn't play no hit songs or TV themes

He's a guitar man just a hired hand

From a local band

Chorus

The whistles blowin' clear and loud

When I hit the station

I'll take a taxi to the corner

I'm gonna meet him by a street car

Name of what-cha-ma-call-it

My imagination

Won't let us miss a thing

Life's gonna be fine when I leave him behind

On a mornin' train