Jim Croce — Steel Rail Blues

I got my mail late last night A letter from a girl who found the time to write To her lonely boy somewhere in the night She sent me a railroad ticket too To take me to her loving arms And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love Well I been up tight most every night Walking around the streets of this old town Not a friend around to tell my troubles to My good old car done broke down 'Cause I drove it into the ground And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love Well look over yonder across that plain The big drive wheels is coming around to town I'm gonna get on board and I'll be homeward bound I ain't had a home cooked meal Lord I need one now And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love Well here I stand, hat in my hand Walking down the big highway can you give a ride To a lonely boy who missed the train last night I went in town for one last round And gambled my ticket away And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love