Jumpin' A Train Lyrics - Ellis Paul

The time, 11:33 on a saturday, november, 1923 

I'm synchronized, it's wise to keep my wits about me 

My name is roy, a one-time choir boy 

Now I'm sixteen, man, and I'm nobody's toy 

I'm gonna take to the wind and get this town behind me 

(chorus) 

I'm jumpin' a train leavin' town 

Howling whistle sounds 

And I'm not looking back -- gonna tie my fate to a train track 

Got a whiskey bottle tied in a corn sack 

Hold on world, I'm coming, I'm hitching a ride on a north-bound train 

Am I alive? won't somebody tell me 

The mississippi waves, what's it trying to sell me? 

Mud in the banks, but no one gets thanks 

When it's tracked in through the doorway