Songwriter: Bob Dylan
[Verse 1]
Sad I’m a-sittin’ on the railroad track
Watching’ that old smokestack
Train is a-leavin’ but it won’t be back
[Verse 2]
Years ago we hang around
Watching’ trains roll through the town
Now that train is a-graveyard bound
[Verse 3]
Where we go up in that North Country
Lakes and streams and mines so free
I had no better friend than he
[Verse 4]
Something happened to him that day
I thought I heard a stranger say
I hung my head and stole away
[Verse 5]
A diesel truck was headin’ down
Carryin' up a heavy load
Left him on a Utah road
[Verse 6]
They carried him back to his hometown
His mother cried, his sister moaned
Listening’ to them church bells tone
[Verse 7]
A diesel truck was rollin' slow
Pullin' down a heavy load
It left him on a Utah road
I-I sung the last verse for ya because I missed the words the first time I sung them about the truck
Sad I’m a-sittin’ on the railroad track
Watching’ that old smokestack
Train is a-leavin’ but it won’t be back
[Verse 2]
Years ago we hang around
Watching’ trains roll through the town
Now that train is a-graveyard bound
[Verse 3]
Where we go up in that North Country
Lakes and streams and mines so free
I had no better friend than he
[Verse 4]
Something happened to him that day
I thought I heard a stranger say
I hung my head and stole away
[Verse 5]
A diesel truck was headin’ down
Carryin' up a heavy load
Left him on a Utah road
[Verse 6]
They carried him back to his hometown
His mother cried, his sister moaned
Listening’ to them church bells tone
[Verse 7]
A diesel truck was rollin' slow
Pullin' down a heavy load
It left him on a Utah road
I-I sung the last verse for ya because I missed the words the first time I sung them about the truck
more tracks from the album
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964
- Tomorrow Is a Long Time (Demo)
- All Over You
- Long Ago, Far Away
- Man on the Street
- Standing on the Highway
- Ballad for a Friend
- Poor Boy Blues
- John Brown
- Seven Curses
- Only a Hobo
- I’d Hate to Be You on That Dreadful Day
- Long Time Gone
- Farewell
- Man on the Street (Fragment)
- Hard Times in New York Town
- Bound to Lose, Bound to Win
- Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
- Guess I’m Doing Fine
- Ain’t Gonna Grieve
- Gypsy Lou
- Whatcha Gonna Do?
- Hero Blues
- Paths of Victory
- Walkin’ Down the Line
- Quit Your Low Down Ways
- Oxford Town
- Bob Dylan’s Dream
- Bob Dylan’s Blues
- Girl from the North Country
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Masters of War
- I Shall Be Free
- Let Me Die in My Footsteps
- Rambling Gambling Willie
- Baby, I’m in the Mood for You
- I’ll Keep It with Mine
- Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
- Mama, You Been on My Mind
- The Death of Emmett Till
- When the Ship Comes In
- Boots of Spanish Leather
- Ballad of Hollis Brown
- Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
From the album
Bob Dylan popular songs
- Murder Most Foul
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- All Along the Watchtower
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Make You Feel My Love
- Hurricane
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Desolation Row
- Tangled Up in Blue
- Masters of War
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
- Girl from the North Country
- Tempest
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- Visions of Johanna
- I Contain Multitudes
- To Fall in Love with You
- Shelter from the Storm