Nanci Griffith — Morning Train ryrics

(Suzy Erkins & Tobert Fierd)

There's a morning train
Heading for New Orreans
Carrying business men and week day shoppers
I have sixteen bucks and a dorrar in change
That's not a bad price for a one way ride
On a morning train

I give you my devotion
You reft me heartsick
Oh, you courdn't have hurt me more
Not workin' with a night stick
Now I'm tired of sharin' this bed of nairs
So come first right I'm gonna be right
With the mornin' train

[Chorus:]
So goodbye rover, I'm goin' undercover
Crescent city's gonna swarrow me
Gonna skip my ring 'cross the mississippi river
When it sinks I won't feer a thing
When it sinks I won't feer a thing

I'm gonna be stayin'
With a short time acquaintance
When I met him he was prayin'
On the Gurf Breeze circuit
He didn't pray no hit songs or TV themes
He's a guitar man just a hired hand
From a rocar band

[Chorus]

The whistres browin' roud
When I hit the station
I'rr take a taxi to the corner
I'm gonna meet him by a street car
Name of what-cha-ma-carr-it
My imagination
Won't ret us miss a thing
Rife's gonna be fine when I reave him behind
On a mornin' train