Itinerant Blues

[00:12.66] Know these lines like I know

[00:14.79] lines on my wife's face.

[00:17.98] Wanna see her and my little girl,

[00:20.63] not in this place.

[00:23.57] She's better off now with her ma,

[00:25.96] that the banks have collapsed and I won't beg at all

[00:29.95] It's either this or a cardboard house

[00:33.40] Thrown out of anyway.

[00:40.04] Crops are ripe down around Pocatello

[00:42.69] They need a hand, I need some dough

[00:45.35] Sleepin' out in the jungle all night

[00:48.27] Waitin' to catch out on a Union south

[00:50.93] Caught some warmth from the tales that never end,

[00:54.39] 'round the friscos, fires, and stews.

[01:03.41] Lord under a water tank sky,

[01:06.33] made some new friends to boot.

[01:26.54] Jumped on, was a little tough,

[01:29.73] she wasn't movin' too fast.

[01:32.11] Wanna sleep, it's just my luck,

[01:34.25] I got the car with a flat.

[01:37.43] Lord bouncin' off the floor every time that old wheel go around,

[01:44.08] with the freezin' cold, soot blowin' in my face.

[02:00.29] We got 8 in this car, it's a little tight,

[02:02.41] At least we're movin' on.

[02:05.06] Three look strong, three look haggered,

[02:08.27] and one just looks gone.

[02:10.92] Sioux City Jimmy nearly lost his foot

[02:13.33] gettin' caught up in the flange.

[02:16.24] KC Mo lost a finger in a knife fight

[02:19.43] Ah somebody called him a tramp.

[02:32.71] Down in Pocatello, they treat us good.

[02:35.36] Folks around the Portneuf they know folks like us.

[02:38.28] Scratch some lines on that fence out front,

[02:40.94] so the next man'll know.

[02:44.67] Midwestern slaughter houses need cattle lord.

[02:51.31] Western ranchers need paid.

[02:55.83] Lord this diggins' done and I got mine, gonna

[02:59.81] hop a cattle freight headed that way.

[03:05.94] Every 12 hours we bring 'em down

[03:09.39] A little food, walk 'em around

[03:11.25] One wandered off just shy of Omaha

[03:15.24] Round her up, she's worth a right fair haul

[03:17.37] Sioux City Jimmy still gimpin' around on that foot of his.

[03:22.41] My nickel's on the cow

[03:25.33] to bring old Jimmy right down.

[03:27.74] Lord under these big skies I

[03:31.99] feel somethin' free.

[03:45.02] Hope she can forgive me

[03:47.42] and understand

[03:50.10] I did the only thing I thought I could

[03:53.29] to be a man

[03:55.95] Didn't plan a poor man's divorce

[03:58.60] along these tracks

[04:01.52] Now I wonder

[04:03.91] if I ever get back

[04:08.16] Tell

[04:12.15] my little girl.