No Brass Band Lyrics - Harper Valley P.t.a. (the Plantation Recordings 1968-70) - Jeannie C. Riley

The train whistle blew for Coal Road Crossin' in a few more minutes we'll pull into town 

I'll have to face the folks who'll come to meet us 

I'll try to keep the tears from fallin' down 

It won't be the way we always had it pictured the day me and daddy went away 

He told 'em we'll come back so rich and famous 

And you'll have a big brass band all set to play 

But there'll be no brass band at the station there'll be no smiles and no celebration 

For daddy there'll just be a black hearse waiting and no brass band at the station 

We left two years ago come next September the letters I wrote were full of lies 

For me and daddy never hit the big time we got our meals down in a Welfare Line 

Daddy met up with some men who planned a robbery 

They said with daddy's brains he'd go real far 

But he never got beyond the first Colt bullet 

Now daddy's in a pinebox in the baggage car 

And there'll be no brass band... 

And no brass band at the station