Written by - Russell Steagall
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Recorded by Hank Snow
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She was a young and pretty Coleman county farm girl
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Never been more than fifty miles from home
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I was just a drifter I was living off the land
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Spent the summer on her daddy's farm
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In the evening we'd walk along the railroad
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We'd hear that lonesome whistle in the night
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And she'd pretend we road the rails to Denver
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Cause' her head was full of flashin' neon lights
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Twas' that big old shiny diesel as it rounded Carter's bend
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Was enough to make a young girl want to roam
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She'd pretend she rode those shiny rails all around the world
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And had the Texas Silver Zephyr bring her home
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As summer work was over and restless got to me
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I kept talkin' 'bout the places I would go
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Then her young head got to spinnin' for the things she'd never seen
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So she followed me to Denver in the fall
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Then jobs got scarce in central Colorado
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And then the winter nights got awful cold
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Just one old army blanket was the only one we had
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No money for the oil to run the stove
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Yes that big old shiny diesel as it rounded Carter's bend
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Was enough to make a young girl want to roam
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But through all those hungry nights the only promise that I made
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I had the Texas Silver Zephyr take her home
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When she started feelin' bad she didn't tell me
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She had a way of keepin' problems all her own
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So I didn't know her troubles with the baby
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Before I could get a doctor she was gone
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Lord I know it's not the way she really wanted things to be
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In her dreams she had a pullman all her own
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But she'd be proud of me to know I kept my promise
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And had the Texas Silver Zephyr take her home
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And had the Texas Silver Zephyr take her home
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The Texas Silver Zephyr
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| Hank Snow |
