Jimmie Rodgers' Dream

I'm looking at a funeral wagon rolling down

A two-lane highway winding past a desert town

A big blue canvas painted by the Master's hand

The shifting clouds above and endless miles of sand

In that mirror maybe that's what's left of me

Wheezing like a freight train hauling sixty tons of steel

Air 'em out's the best release and get some rest

Carrie don't wait up for me the brakeman's going West

chorus

In this room all alone

I dream of you

In this drawer I found someone

I never knew

Now I pop a top and stay up late with Gideon

And fall asleep to visions of Meridian

I've seen dusty beaten delta boys cutting heads

A black face carney showman scare a song to death

In my short life I've seen as much as most men need

Now I'm just looking for some cleaner air to breathe

[repeat chorus]

Far away, far away

So many years, so many days

All along this broken land

I've seen a lover's empty arms

And hunger's empty hand