Jumpin` a Train — текст песни (Ellis Paul)

The time, 11:33 on a Saturday, November, 1923
I`m synchronized, it`s wise to keep my wits about me
My name is Roy, a one-time choir boy

Now I`m sixteen, man, and I`m nobody`s toy
I`m gonna take to the wind and get this town behind me

(chorus)
I`m jumpin` a train leavin` town
Howling whistle sounds
And I`m not looking back -- gonna tie my fate to a train track
Got a whiskey bottle tied in a corn sack
Hold on world, I`m coming, I`m hitching a ride on a north-bound train

Am I alive? Won`t somebody tell me
The Mississippi waves, what`s it trying to sell me?
Mud in the banks, but no one gets thanks
when it`s tracked in through the doorway

I am home grown, sewn into these britches
But I`m not spending my life digging up ditches
Like my Daddy did, and his Daddy did, and his Daddy before