You didn’t even once relent
A man can’t think so long
By the holes in the soles of my shoes
Where the American rivers flow
Of days so long ago
Playing in the Arroyos
Sounding like the wolves of Hell
And we didn’t even know she was there
And falling in the garden
Where the soul of the muse might rise
And if you put it all together
It was always are destination
From the Appalachians
And Beale street didn’t have no prayer
You cast a long shadow
Then one day, I could tell my tracks
And we rock through Madison City
And when we hit the Buffers in Memphis
And if you put it all together
Head for the water, the water of the cleansing spell
Crawl up the mountain
A long shadow on the ground
His brain could well explode
It was those men who built the roads
“I’m gonna make the news”
On the express of the Ne’er Do Wells
You know you cast
You won't have to look around
A long shadow on the ground
The Devil may care and maybe God he won’t
I hear punks talk of anarchy, I hear hobos on the railroad
A King comes down the road
Listen to the Night Streamliner
And if you put it all together
You got to grab 'em jack
Listen to the Country 'The Night Jar and the Bell'
Somewhere in the memory
I hear mutterings on the chain-gangs
You won’t have to look around
You know you cast
Sure you can glimpse from the mountaintop
Down to the Delta Roads
And that is your testament
The sun shines on you boy
And that the day I said
And pin 'em to the ground
To reach where the eagles fly
There’s trains running through the junctions
Better make sure, you check on the 'Do’s' and the 'Don’ts'
