Railroad Bill, Railroad Bill

 He never worked, and he never will,

 And it's ride, ride, ride.

 

 Railroad Bill's a mighty mean man

 Shot the light out of the poor brakeman's hand

 

 Railroad Bill, up on a hill

 Lightin' a seegar with a ten-dollar bill.

 

 Railroad Bill took my wife,

 If I didn't like it, gonna take my life.

 

 Goin' on a mountain, goin' out west

 Thirty-eight special stickin' out of my vest.

 

 Buy me a pistol just as long as my arm

 Shoot everybody ever done me harm.

 

 Got a thirty-special in a forty-five frame,

 I can't miss 'cause I got dead aim.

 

 Railroad Bill, he ain't so bad

 Whupped his mama, shot his old dad.

 

 Early one morning, standing in the rain

 Round the bend come a long freight train.

 

 Railroad Bill a-comin' home soon

 Killed McMillan by the light of the moon

 

 McMillan had a special train

 When they got there they was prayin'

 

 Kill me a chicken, send me the wing

 They think I'm workin', Lord, I ain't doin' a thing.

 

 Kill me a chicken, send me the head,

 Think I'm workin', Lord, I'm layin' in bed.

 

 Gonna drink my whiskey, drink it in the wind

 The doctor said it'd kill me but he didn't say when.