歌词
歌曲名 East Texas Red
歌手名 Tom Russell
Down in the scrub oak country
To the southeast texas gulf
There used to ride a brakeman
A brakeman double tough
He worked the town of kilgore
And long view twelve miles down
And the travelers all said
Little east texas red
He was the meanest bull around
If you rode by night or the broad daylight
In the wintery wind or the sun
You would always see little east texas red
Just a sportin his smooth runnin gun
And the tale got switched down the stems and mains
And everybody said
That the meanest bull
On them shiney irons
Was that little east texas red
It was on a cold and a windy morn night
Along towards nine or ten
A couple of boys on the hunt of a job
They stood in that blizzardy wind
They are hungry and cold they knocked on the doors
Of the workin people around
For a piece of meat
And a carrot or spud just a boil of stew around
East texas red come down the line
And he swung off that old number two
He kicked their bucket over a bush
And he dumped out all of their stew
And the travelers said little east texas red
You better get your business straight
Cause youre gonna ride
Your little black train just one year from today
Well red he laughed and he climbed the bank
And he swung on the side of a wheeler
And the boys caught a tanker to seminole
Then west to amarillo
They caught them a job of oil field work
And followed a pipeline down
It took them lots of places
Before that year
Had rolled around
Then on a cold and windy day morn
They caught them a gulf bound train
They shivered and shook with the dough in their clothes
To the scrub oak flats again
With their warm suits of clothes and overcoats some
They walked into a store
They paid that man
For some meat and stuff
To a boil of stew once more
The ties they tracked down that cinder dump
They come to the same old spot
Where east texas red just a one year ago
Had dumped their last stew pot
Well the smoke of their fire went higher and higher
And red come down the line
With his head tucked low in the wintery wind
He waved old number nine
He walked on down through the jungle yard
And he came to the same old spot
And there was the same two men again
Around that same stew pot
Red went to his knees and he hollered
Please dont pull your trigger on me
I did not get my business straight
But he did not get his say
Cause a gun wheeled out of an overcoat
And it played that old one two
And red was dead when the other two men
Sat down to eat their stew
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