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V8 Ford Blues, Part 2
Charlie Parr
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Well, this song's about a kid growing up in the country, you know
When the farm life begins to disagree with him one day
You know, when an old three-wheel case tractor
Falls in the turn row and kills his brother
So he goes to hop a freight for Texas, where he might
Find a job working on the horses or with the cattle
He's down at the little train yard in the town
Where you have to run pretty fast to catch a Western
It don't stop, it only slows down to make the
Curve and obey that Sunday ordinance, you know
When he finally makes it down to that curve, he can already
Hear the engine bell tone like a church bell, toning like this
Well, before he knows it, a feet of gravel and all
The ballast fully dangles from a boxcar grip, you know
Well, on the other side of home, a hard old man waits up at
The far end of the car and asks the kid where's he headed
That kid says Texas, you know
Now, but the old man laughs and says
"Son, you're not going to California
Only way to Texas from California anyway
Is back from California, you know
California's where you're headed
It's a long old ride back from there"
Well, that kid sniffles a little bit thinking about
The long way back home and his family waiting for him
When the old man sits there and talks
And tells him stories about the road
Asks him how much money he's got, you know
He starts to thinking like this
Oh, back home I've got me a black V8 Ford
With the doors wide open
I tell you, brother, if I was in that car I'd be home right now
Well, they rode to the mountains like that
And then they heard the engine pick up some steam
And an engineer lay down on that whistle
Old train whistle makes that kid lonelier still, it goes
Kid starts to thinking like this
Oh, back home I've got me a black V8 Ford
With the doors wide open
I tell you, brother, if I was in that car I'd be home right now
Well, they hit a tunnel in the mountains and the
Old man tells the kid, "Cover your face, that
Coal smoke blows up in here and it'll kill you"
Ah, but when they came out the other side the old man was dead
That kid could almost hear that old Ford's doors rattling as
He gunned it down some country road back home, back to his
When that freight stopped for water in some
Lonely Colorado town, that kid hopped on
He started walking back along the rails, going back home, you know
Oh, back home I've got me a black V8 Ford
With the doors wide open
I tell you, brother, if I was in that car I'd be home right now