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Devil at the Wheel
03:25
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To every truck driving man
I will tell you if I can
When you're out there trying to make your time
You've been out there on the road
Pulling a heavy load
And you need a little pill to ease your mind
That white freightliner keeps on rolling down the line
When you take just one to change the way you feel
Mean and she's fast, and the good times don't last
That mean freightliner's got the devil at the wheel
He'll pull down the side
And he'll offer you a ride
He'll tell you that he'll help you with your load
But when you make that final deal
You let the devil take the wheel
You're going down a long and a lonesome road
That white freightliner keeps on rolling down the line
When you take just one to change the way you feel
Mean and she's fast, and the good times don't last
That mean freightliner's got the devil at the wheel
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That Rutland Train
02:43
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My baby left me
She went and caught a train
She caught that train back the place from she came
She left me standing at this depot in the rain
My baby's on that Rutland train again
She's riding on that Rutland train again
She doesn't have a dollar
She doesn't have a friend
She's riding on that Rutland train again
I always knew she wasn't going to settle down
Out here in the woods so far away from town
But now she's gone and the blues are all around
My baby's on that Rutland train again
She's riding on that Rutland train again
She doesn't have a dollar
She doesn't have a friend
She's riding on that Rutland train again
I hope some day she'll leave those trains behind
Come back home here at the end of the line
Maybe then well I can rest my weary mind
My baby's on that Rutland train again
She's riding on that Rutland train again
She doesn't have a dollar
She doesn't have a friend
She's riding on that Rutland train again
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Married to the Road
03:29
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I'm married to the road, I'm married to the road,
I'm an old time trucking man
And I'm married to the road
I've been driving this road to Lewiston
For the past twenty years
I ain't done much of nothing
Just jamming on the gears
I come from the old school
I'm an old time trucking man
I know these county roads
Like the back of my hand
I'm married to the road, I'm married to the road,
I'm an old time trucking man
And I'm married to the road
I drive the midnight hour
I drive in the noonday sun
Driving out on 95
Or up on old route 1
I'm stronger than a mule
I'm tougher than a cat
My left fist is a hammer
My right is a baseball bat
I'm married to the road, I'm married to the road,
I'm an old time trucking man
And I'm married to the road
I've been strapping down iron
I've been moving pallets round
I can throw a railroad tie
I can lift five hundred pounds
I can drive for twenty hours
Without blinking an eye
I drive coast to coast
Around this world my rig will fly
I'm married to the road, I'm married to the road,
I'm an old time trucking man
And I'm married to the road
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April
04:38
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I loved her like a flower
Blooming through the snow
Gave her my love and my heart
But she never let love show
I went out for to ramble
Dark thoughts troubling my mind
Up the trail to her cabin
Never knowing what I might find
April, you're so cruel
She was there with a man
Whose name I did not know
I shot him down through the heart
He fell down in the snow
I wandered down through the forest
Dried blood upon my hands
I hear those hound dogs barking
Just hunting some lonesome man
April, you're so cruel
When I hang from the gallows
Don't say no prayer for
But bury me in the churchyard
Where flowers in snow I can see
April...
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Little Mountain Home
03:07
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There's a road that I know that goes over the hill
In the mountains where the sugar maple grows
Momma and dad are waiting for me there
Up that little mountain road I'm bound to go
I see them now sitting by the fire
In the house where once I was a lad
Going back home, going to leave that road alone
And settle down with momma and dad
There's a dog out in the yard, a bobcat in the woods
Chickens they just wander where they will
There's a little mountain stream where the trout fishing's good
Way up in those Green Mountain hills
I see them now sitting by the fire
In the house where once I was a lad
Going back home, going to leave that road alone
And settle down with momma and dad
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Dan Johnson Burlington, Vermont
low key folk music - (how many?) records, a few (dozen?) years worth of weird gigs, no pressure y'all... did shows with some great folks and I just love country bluegrass and any kinda folk song mostly...
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