Morning Train Lyrics - Nanci Griffith

(Suzy Elkins - Robert Field) 

There's a morning train 

Headed for New Orleans 

Carrying bussiness men and week day shoppers 

I have sixteen bucks and a dollar in change 

That's not bad price for a one way ride 

On a morning train 

I give you my devotion 

You left me heartsick 

Oh, you couldn't had hurt me more 

Not workin' with a night stick 

Now I'm tired of sharin' this bed of nails 

So come first light I'm gonna be right 

With the mornin' train 

Chorus 

So goodbye lover, I'm goin' undercover 

Crescent City's gonna swallow me 

Gonna skip my ring 'cross the Mississippi River 

When it sinks I wont' feel a thing 

When it sinks I won't feel a thing 

I'm gonna be stayin' 

With a short time acquaintance 

When I met him he was playin' 

On the Gulf Breeze Circuit 

He didn't play no hit songs or TV themes 

He's a guitar man just a hired hand 

From a local band 

Chorus 

The whistles blowin' clear and loud 

When I hit the station 

I'll take a taxi to the corner 

I'm gonna meet him by a street car 

Name of what-cha-ma-call-it 

My imagination 

Won't let us miss a thing 

Life's gonna be fine when I leave him behind 

On a mornin' train