Lonesome Leaving Train (single)

Lonesome Leaving Train

-by Amanda Cook and THomm Jutz


She was a beautiful young bride

Dying to be there by his side

Left Virginia far behind

Just to be with him


She was Kansas City Bound

When she heard that whistle sound

She didn’t turn and look around

She was solid gone


Lonesome Leaving Train

Rolling through the rain

Just a suitcase to her name

On a lonesome leaving train


It took two days to get her there

But the platform lay there bare

She couldn’t find him anywhere

She was all alone


She couldn’t stand to bear the pain

Could only find herself to blame

No way of living with the pain

And turn and go back home



Lonesome Leaving Train

Rolling through the rain

Just a suitcase to her name

On a lonesome leaving train


Nowhere to go nowhere to run

She pawned the ring to buy the gun

Did what she thought to be done

She died there all alone


They say sometimes a form is seen

Of a woman lost in dream

Who rides from Kansas to Virginia

Round about midnight



Lonesome Leaving Train

Rolling through the rain

Just a suitcase to her name

On a lonesome leaving train