C. Daniel Boling - Friendless Heart

©2023 Tom Paxton – Bristow Songs / SESAC & Daniel Boling – Perfectly Stable Music / ASCAP

Hitched here in a boxcar
The trains that I remember
Time moved on – Left me stranded here
All alone this time of night
But trains haul containers now
I’m holding but an ember
Of a flame that kept me moving all those years
Praying for one crack of daylight
Every time I hear a distant freight
I long to move on down the line
The music of her whistle sends a message
To a friendless heart like mine
She sings ooo ooo ooo …
Took up with a girl
I met one night at the dance
I tried so hard to settle down
I sure made some mess of that
She was good to me
Kind and loving as could be
And I just had to run around
Play the field like some young tomcat
Every time I hear a distant freight
I long to move on down the line
The music of her whistle sends a message
To a friendless heart like mine
Nowhere works for no one
Guess that’s why it works for me
Nowhere is exactly where I will be
Every time I hear a distant freight
I long to move on down the line
The music of her whistle sends a message
To a friendless heart like mine
She sings ooo ooo ooo …