Well, I was drunk the day my momma got out of prison,
And I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station in the pick-up truck,
She got runned over by a damned old train.
The guy that wrote that must have written the “Green, green grass of home”, also.
“Well, I was drunk the day my momma got out of prison,
And I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station in the pick-up truck,
She got runned over by a damned old train.”
There is something real curious about that song... seems it was co-written by John Prine with Stephen Goodman. But this isn’t the surprising part. http://www.jpshrine.org/lyrics/songs/younevercallmeby.html
Stephen Goodman wrote... “City of New Orleans”, that’s pretty amazing and in my opinion, that’s actually a really great song. And the poor guy didn’t have a long life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Goodman