Testo Panama Limited - Tom Rush
Testo della canzone Panama Limited (Tom Rush), tratta dall'album The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets 1962-1999
Here's a song about a train
It's called the Panama Limited
The Panama Limited she's the train
Runs from Washington, D.C. down on to New Orleans
That train she's a special streamline, you know
And she's fast
That train's so fast
The hoboes don't mess with that train
They just stand by the track with their hat in their hand
I had a girl she was leavin' one mornin' on that train
She got up singin' and cryin'
She said daddy
Hey now I hate to go
Hey hey hey hey
We're walkin' on down to Union Depot
Way off in the distance she heard a train whistle blowin'
She asked me was that the Panama Limited
I said no babe, that's a local freight
She said how can you tell
I said well, they blow a little bit different
Local freight she blows like this
Panama Limited she blows a little bit more lonesome
Blows a little bit like this
She said what time is train time
I said I don't know nothin' about train time, babe
I'm just hangin' around tryin' to make a few dimes
She got up singin' and cryin'
She said daddy
It's alright the way you turned me down
Hey mama ain't got a dime
She went runnin' on ahead down to Union Depot
And I went runnin' after her to beg forgiveness for the words I'd said
I got down to the bottom of Union Depot steps
I looked up ahead
And there she was all the way up on top of the steps
And I called her name
When she heard me call her name she turned back
And she called back to me over her left shoulder
She said too late
Too late too late too late
Hey mama gonna leave you now
Just then
Just then you hear the Panama Limited
Blowin' 36 miles out of Memphis, Tennessee
She went runnin' up to the depot agent
She asked him what time train time was
He said you go lean your head down on the track, babe
And when you hear the rail poppin'
You know train time won't be long
She went over and she leaned her head
Down against this cold steel rail
And she could hear the Panama Limited comin' in
She got up singin' and cryin'
She said daddy
I hate to leave my home
Hey and I believe I'll lose my mind
I went over to her, you know, and put my arms around her
We stood there for awhile
And pretty soon the Panama Limited she's out on the edge of town
All the way in Union Depot you can hear her
When the engineer's comin' down
Comin' down on acrossHe cuts down on
The air brakes, it sounds like this
My gal, she's up singing and crying
She said, "Daddy, I may never see your face no more
Hey, mama ain't got a home"
Pretty soon out of Panama Limon she's coming on into the station
Engineer, he's bringing her in fast but he's slowing down
He's sitting way up high there in the peek
Seat, he keeps pulling on the bell rope
The bell keeps on tolling, sound like this
She's gone everywhere but home
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Writer(s): Jerry Clower
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