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Slow Moving Freight Train

by Hugh Moffatt

on Loving You (1987)

I woke up this mornin' in the back of my Chevy again
As broke and alone as I think that I ever have been
No matter how I play these big city games I can't win
Goin' back where a man still has meanin' and a friend is a friend

Give me a long, slow movin' freight train
Don't want a fast, high flyin' airplane
Sing me a slow, lonesome old love song
Before too long, I'll be long gone

Gonna pack up my suitcase and call up a few friends I know
And I'll saddle that Chevy and drive her till she just won't go
Then I'll catch me a slow freight that's headed for God only knows
And forget all this livin' too fast and dyin' too slow

Give me a long, slow movin' freight train
Don't want a fast, high flyin' airplane
Sing me a slow, lonesome old love song
Before too long, I'll be long gone