This brings back a flood of memories - I used to play this quite a bit & most artists (at least in Texas) performed it as part of a 3 song set known as 'The Texas Trilogy' (the other two songs are 'Daybreak' and 'Trainride').

The lyrics to those 2 songs - which also include 2 narratives:

Daybreak

Em       D            G          D                A       E            C       E E/F E
6'oclock silence of a new day beginning
    Em         D          Bm                      A          D          A
is heard in a small Texas
Em       D            G          D                A         E         C       E E/F E
Like a signal from nowhere the people who live there
    Em         D          Bm                      A      D       A
are up and runnin' around
                E                           A                   A                      D
'cause there's bacon to fry and there's biscuits to bake
       E                      A                                  A                      D
On a stove that the Salvation Army won't take
          E                   A                                  A                      D
And you open the windows and turn on the fan
         Em               A            F            B            A       D       C      A
'cause it's hotter than hell when the sun hits the land
Em       D            G          D                A       E            C       E E/F E
Walter and Fanny well they own the grocery
that sells most all that you need
They've been up and workin' since early this mornin'
they've got the whole village to feed
They put out fresh eggs and throw the bad ones away
that rotted because of the heat yesterday
The store is all dark so you can't see the flies
that settle on round steak and last Monday's pies

Sleepy Hill's drugstore and the cafe are open
the coffee is bubbling hot
'Cause the folks who ain't workin' gonna sit there till sundown
and talk about what they ain't got
Someone just threw a clutch in the ol pickup truck
Seems like they're ridin' on a streak of bad luck
The doctor bills came and the well has gone dry
Seems their grown kids don't care whether they live or die

Spoken:
Hell I can remember when Kopperl, Texas was a good place for a man to live
and raise a family. 'Course that was before the cotton gin closed down.
Has it been that long ago? You know it seems like only yesterday ol Steve Hughes
lost his arm in that infernal machine and walked all the way home a bleedin'
to death. 'Course the new highway helped some. They dammed up the Brazos to
build Lake Whitney. Brought some fishermen down from Dallas and Ft. Worth.
Town shure has been quiet since they closed down the depot and built that
new trestle of west of town.

You know the train just don't stop here anymore
No- the train just don't stop here anymore........



Trainride
         D                               C
Well the last time I remember that train stoppin at the depot
         G                           D
was when me and my Aunt Veeda came a ridin' back from Waco
    D                            C                            G
I remember I was wearin' my long pants and I was sharin' conversation
                   D
with a man who sold ball point pens and paper
       C                                     D
And the train stopped once in Clifton where my Aunt bought me some ice cream
   C                                 D
My mom was there to meet us when the train pulled into Kopperl


CHORUS:
    C                   D               
Now kids at night break window lights
       C                D   
And the sound of trains only remains
       C               D            
In the memories of the ones like me
         C                         D
Who have turned their backs on the splintered cracks
       C                      D
In the walls that stand on the railroad land
         C                D                  G
Where we used to play and run away, from the depot man

Spoken:
Yeah, but the train just don't stop here anymore


Well I remember me and brother used to run down to the depot
Just to listen to the whistle blow when the train pulled into Kopperl
And the engine big and shiny black as coal that fed the fire
And the engineer he'd smile and say Howdy, how ya fellas.
And the people by the windows playin cards and readin papers
Looked as far away to us as next summer school vacation

CHORUS


Spoken:
I wonder why it is you never see no young folks around Kopperl.
Seems like as soon as the first of May rolls around and all the seniors
graduate, they go runnin' off to Cleburne and Ft. Worth and get 'em a good
job.+++STOP HERE!!+++ you know and they work at the cement plant in Cleburne
and the phone company in Ft. Worth. Course there's some that never leave
Bosque County, Texas. Their final reward is being carried down to the
Brister Funeral Home in Meridian, the county seat, and theyre laid out
in state and the professional mourners come by. The family holds court
and then that's over and they haul the body back up to Kopperl where it's
laid out in state once again in the Church of Christ, the Methodist Church
or the Baptist Church - Anyone of the big three. They open the coffin and
the mourners walk by and say "My don't he look natural"