《East Texas Red》歌词

歌曲： East Texas Red

所属专辑：Folkways: A Vision Shared

歌手： Arlo Guthrie

时长： 05:35

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East Texas Red - Arlo Guthrie (阿洛·古利)[00:00:00]

Written by：Woody Guthrie[00:00:02]

Down in the scrub oak timber of the southeast Texas gulf[00:00:08]

There used to ride a brakeman and a brakeman double tough[00:00:16]

He worked the town of Kilgore and Longview nine miles down[00:00:25]

Us trav'lers called him east Texas red the meanest bull around[00:00:34]

I rode by night and by broad daylight in wind and snow and sun[00:00:42]

I always seen little east Texas red sporting his smooth running gun[00:00:51]

The tale got switched down the stems and main and everybody said[00:01:00]

The meanest man on the shiny rails was little east Texas red[00:01:08]

It was early in the morning and along towards nine or ten[00:01:17]

A couple of boys on the hunt of a job stood in the Blizzardy wind[00:01:25]

Hungry and cold they knocked on the doors of the working folks around[00:01:34]

For a piece of meat and a spud or two to boil a stew around[00:01:43]

Red he come down the cinder dump and he flagged the number two[00:01:52]

He kicked their bucket over a bush and he dumped out all their stew[00:02:00]

A traveler said mister east Texas red you better get everything fixed[00:02:09]

'Cause you're gonna ride your little train just one year from today[00:02:17]

Red he laughed as he clumb the bank and swung aside of a wheeler[00:02:26]

The boys caught a tanker to Seminole and west to Amarillo[00:02:35]

They struck them a job of oil field work and followed a pipe line down[00:02:43]

It took them lots of places till the year had rolled around[00:02:52]

On one cold and Wintery day they hooked them a gulf bound train[00:03:01]

They shivered and shook with dough in their clothes to see Kilgore again[00:03:09]

Over hills of sand and hard froze roads where the cotton wagons roll[00:03:18]

On past the town of Kilgore and on to old Longview[00:03:27]

With their warm suits of clothes and overcoats they walk into a store[00:03:35]

They pay the man for some meat and stuff to fix a stew once more[00:03:44]

The ties they walk back past the yards till[00:03:52]

They come to the same old spot[00:03:57]

Where east Texas red just a year ago had dumped their last stew pot[00:04:01]

The smoke of their fire went higher and higher a man come down the line[00:04:10]

He ducked his head in the Blizzardy wind and waved old number nine[00:04:18]

He walked off down the cinder dump till he come to the same old spot[00:04:27]

And there was the same three men again around that same little pot[00:04:36]

Red went to his knees and he hollered[00:04:44]

Please don't pull that trigger on me[00:04:48]

I did not get my business fixed but he did not get his say[00:04:53]

A gun wheeled out of an overcoat and it played the old one two[00:05:01]

And red was dead when the other two men set down to eat their stew[00:05:10]