Lyrics to
Railroad Song

This version of Railroad Song was released by Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1975.

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I jumped off a boxcar down around Tennessee
I was cold tired and dirty hungry as I could be
But I had my guitar and a hundred railroad songs
So I asked the policeman
Can I stay here long
He said Mr. Hobo you got to go now
We don’t want you around
See I’m trying to build a respectable town
And we don’t need a hobo like you around

So I left that town, Lord with my guitar in my hand
Still cold and tired, kinda mad at the man
But this life that I chose to live, sometime’s strange
See I’m trying to learn about the old music from ridin’ the train
I’m a hobo I know, but thta’s the price I pay
Guess I’ll write me another song while I’m on my way
Catch me another train and this is what I’ll say
Mr Choo-choo train take me away

I’m goin’ to ride this train Lord until I find out
What Jimmie Rogers and the Hag was all about
See I play this rock n roll and I think that’s fine
But I wnta to go back a little further in time
I’m a hobo I know but that’s the price I pay
Guess I’ll write me another song while I’m on my way
Catch me another train and this is what I’ll say
Mr Choo-choo train take me away

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Lynyrd Skynyrd has released many songs over the years besides Railroad Song. Lynyrd Skynyrd released songs from 1973 to 2000 spanning across albums like (pronounced 'leh-'nerd 'skin-'nerd), Second Helping, Nuthin' Fancy, Gimme Back My Bullets, Street Survivors, First And... Last., Legend, Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991, The Last Rebel, Endangered Species, Twenty, Edge Of Forever, and Christmas Time Again. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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About Lyrics and Railroad Song by Lynyrd Skynyrd

When you decide to study the lyrics to Railroad Song, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Some of the lyrics to Railroad Song have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Lynyrd Skynyrd and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Railroad Song if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Railroad Song" means the words set to the music of Railroad Song, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Lynyrd Skynyrd. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Railroad Song and the lyrics to Railroad Song are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Lynyrd Skynyrd who came here looking just for the lyrics to Railroad Song, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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