Forty thousand lonesome crossties
and a cold steel double line track,
la, la, cold steel double line track
There's a 40 -car freight
loadin' on water and coal
to the Cairo jail, you'll go,
poor boy, Cairo jail, you'll go
I picked peaches out in Fresno,
And I've learned that trouble
Are the lot of a ramblin' man, poor boy,
The lot of a ramblin' man.
and a quarter and a dime,
Yet tomorrow I'll be leavin'
I'll be laughin' in free and gone,
Cause I'm walkin' down to Georgia
Forty thousand lonesome cross ties
And a cold steel double line track,
Cold steel double line track
And a cold steel double line track,
