(Lyrics available in CD booklet)

(Lyrics available in CD booklet)

Well I’m running down this road
A hundred miles from home
We quarreled like true lovers often will
And I still recall the shame
Thought I heard her call my name
But it was nothing—nothing but a whippoorwill

Dark clouds, lightning in the air
The rain was softly falling as I brushed away her hair

She said we had to part, even though she held my heart
And to this day, I know she always will
It was such a dreadful sight, but she’s peaceful there tonight
Lying in the ground so cold and still

I couldn’t let her walk away
From everything she promised on our wedding day

Now I’m running every day, but I’ll never get away
From the rhythm of her voice, it haunts me still
As I turned my gun around
Thought I heard that mournful sound
But it was nothing—nothing but a whippoorwill

Dark clouds, lightning in the air
The rain was softly falling as I brushed away her hair

He called from Kansas City
He said I’m on the Missouri side
She said you had me worried
I was expecting you tonight
The silence that followed caused her heartbeat to race
so she got out a map, her hands trembling as she sat
for the next words he would say

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Then her tears fell on Missouri
Like rain a-pourin’ down
he just called and told her
about a new love he’d found
the children lay a-sleepin’
they don’t know their daddy’s gone
and her tears fell on Missouri
from their little Georgia home

She said what about our babies
Don’t you remember the day
the doctor gave ’em to you
and your tears of joy fell on their face
you should’ve thought of their feelings ’cause it’s not just you and me alone
and what am I gonna say to our angels when they wake
and ask why dad’s not coming home

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Another birthday came and went
Guess I missed the card you never sent
I can’t blame you though it’s true
It’s not like I was there for you

I used to love to watch the trees
Leaves in motion through a gentle breeze
Now I watch them falling down
And the wind’s a mournful sound

I guess life ain’t all that bad
Still got memories in spades
I wish they didn’t make me sad
You know I used to love parades

I don’t like football anymore
Don’t even care enough to hear the score
Seems like everything I do
Keeps reminding me of you

I wish I felt like going out
Alaska’s nice this time of year, no doubt
But lately life just ain’t the same
Guess I should learn to take the blame

I guess life ain’t all that bad
But life worth living slowly fades
Everything that’s left is sad
You know I used to love parades

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Got a message from the wind today
When it blew a tear across my face
It said it’s time to turn and go its way
Guess it’s time I’m movin’ on

Saw a bird sail the breeze that blows
across the ridge the way I need to go
It took this much of my life to know
I’ll probably never find a home

A wanderin’ life is what I have
comin’ in and headin’ out
The urge to go is in my blood to stay
The wind is startin’ to pick up today

Might’ve had what I left to find
in the place that I left behind
but a different breeze was blowin’ in my mind
and it just would not let me see

Now I’m standin’ here but it’s just not the same
I guess the only thing I know is change
The winds a-startin’ to blow again
Guess it’s time for me to leave

A wanderin’ life is what I have
comin’ in and headin’ out
The urge to go is in my blood to stay
I’ll probably never know another way
The wind is startin’ to pick up today

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Quarter Moon, shine down on the highway tonight
I wonder if my darling sees you shining too
But it’s always a long road home, so Quarter Moon
Won't you light my way through?

It’s a long summer night and as the moon is shining bright
I recall the dreams we once held
All the memories that we shared, precious moments only spared
As the sky fell to darkness again

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Full of hope but paper thin, like things that might have been
That’s the way I see you tonight
But I hold you in my heart, close inside yet far apart
And soon the dawn will be breaking again

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I started on my wild urge to ramble
I stepped on hearts like pavement on the streets
I treated women just like chips to gamble
and it didn’t bother me to watch ’em leave

But I knew there was something different about her
the first time that she ever spoke my name
Her warm red lips erased all the others
She kissed me and completely changed the game

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Right then I felt the whole earth a shakin’
like a big ole tree had just hit the ground
like a train a leavin’ and it ain’t a brakin’
and there’s nothing in this world can stop it now

But I fell back in my wild urge to ramble
and it didn’t take too long till she caught on
in 14 minutes my world came unraveled
’cause that’s how long it took her to get gone

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My life was useless without her
I’d lost the only thing I’d ever loved
I fell on my knees and cried to the Father
God please forgive me I have strayed enough

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I grew up in a small town, had all those small town dreams
’bout a wife and family and all those simple things
I watched Mom and Daddy struggle, they did the best that they could do
to make sure we had a home to go home to.

Daddy was a long haul trucker, Momma was a good house wife.
Can’t really lay the blame on either one of them, they both started gettin’ lonely at night
After fifteen years of marriage they decided they were through
and all at once we had no home to go home to

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A house don’t make a home, that’s what Mom would always say
It’s nothing but a building once true love fades away
You might live in a mansion all fancy and new
and still not have a home to go home to

Well I made myself a promise if I ever left this town
I'd find someone I really loved and do my best to settle down
But life can sure be funny, can play some real strange tricks on you
Now I’m growin’ old with no home to go home to

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He rode out from Old Fort Hays alone
Thinkin’ ’bout the one left behind but not for long
Then he was gone

James Butler Hickock was his name
He never knew just why they called him “Bill”
or “Wild,” since he never liked to kill

The youngest son of a Baptist preacher man
His mother said “Don’t take up the gun
or you’re always on the run”

“Don’t go James,” she cried
and he told her that he wouldn’t but he lied
“I’m looking for my fortune and it ain’t in Illinois
but they say that farther West it’s open wide”

So he started off across the endless plains
and he soon became a jack of every trade
But some men are born not made

Nichols came to Springfield riding high
looking for a dime-store Galahad
but Bill was all he had

Six foot three in a tall Prince Albert frock
He let his blond hair flow down behind
Two ivory-handled pistols at his side

The lies they built a legend ’round his head
They stared at him like the Son of God come down
That usually meant a good night on the town

Agnes Lake was a beauty so they say
She rendezvoused with Bill in old Cheyenne
and soon he won her hand

Nearly blind he married her that spring
Their love like fragrant blossoms grew
But deep inside she knew

“Don’t go Bill,” she cried
and he told her that he wouldn’t but he lied
“We could make a fortune in the Black Dakota Hills
where a reputation keeps a man alive”
But she never saw that man again alive

Jack McCall was a drifter and a bum
He shot Bill in the back of the head
Aces and eights the dead man’s hand

The legend and the man are not the same
but the man died in Deadwood all alone
The legend still lives on

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I’m on an endless train
that never slows down
It just keeps rollin’ on
headed for a better town
Dawn breaks red in the eastern sky
and the train moves faster towards another light
I’m on an endless train
that never slows down

I race with time to make my way
I cover a thousand miles a day
My God shows me which way to go
and the train won’t stop even when I leave this world below

Chorus

Cross a mile high mountain or a windy plain
My Lord is the captain of this train
Won’t you run toward the station when the whistle blows
and get on board with the one who’ll bring peace to your soul

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