Where were you when the train left town?

I'se standing on the corner with my head hung down.

Hey that train, carried my girl from town,

Hey-yay, yea, hey-yay.

I wish to the Lord that train would wreck,

Kill the engineer and break the fireman's neck.

Hey that train, carried my girl from town,

Hey-yay, yea, hey-yay.

Rations on the table, coffee's gettin' cold,

Some dirty rounder stole my jelly roll.

Hey that train, carried my girl from town,

Hey-yay, yea, hey-yay.

There goes my girl, somebody bring her back,

'Cause she's got her hand in my money sack.

Hey that train, carried my girl from town,

Hey-yay, yea, hey-yay.

Ah, she's rollin' on down the line now,

(spoken)

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust,

Lord show me a woman that a man can trust.

Hey that train, carried my girl from town,

Hey-yay, yea, hey-yay.

Enough to make a man lonely. Oh yeah!

This is the way she sounded when she went outta hearin'. (spoken)