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ADD: Dusty Boxcar Wall (Eric Andersen)

18 Jul 99 - 01:38 PM (#96479)
Subject: dusty boxcar wall
From: jwise27451@aol.com

Can anyone get me the lyrics to "Dusty Boxcar Wall" by Eric Anderson?

Thanks, Joel


27 Jul 99 - 10:48 PM (#99990)
Subject: lyrics Dusty boxcar wall by Eric Anderson
From: Jwise27451@aol.com

I'm looking for the lyrics to Eric Anderson's "Dusty boxcar wall" A real driving song with some great strumming. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Joel


07 Dec 11 - 10:40 PM (#3270221)
Subject: Lyr Add: DUSTY BOXCAR WALL (from Eilen Jewell)
From: Jim Dixon

These lyrics are copied from InsurgentCountry.net, but I also checked them against a recording at Spotify and edited them a bit.


DUSTY BOXCAR WALL
Eric Andersen
As sung by Eilen Jewell on "Letters from Sinners & Strangers" (2007)

CHORUS: Well, I'm goin' away, my baby.
I'm gonna leave you, honey, now.
Well, that train passed by when you lay sleepin'.
I'm gonna write you a letter on a dusty boxcar wall.

1. Well, the only two things a gambler needs
Are a suitcase and a trunk,
And the only time that he's satisfied
Is when he's on the drunk. CHORUS

2. I once loved a boy in Cincinnati.
I loved a boy in sunny Tennessee.
Well, a city boy will fill your heart with sadness,
But a country boy's as good as he can be. CHORUS


07 Dec 11 - 10:53 PM (#3270222)
Subject: Lyr Add: DUSTY BOXCAR WALL (Eric Andersen)
From: bobad

These are the lyrics as sung by Eric on his album "Today is the Highway"

Eric Andersen
Dusty Boxcar Wall

Chorus:
I'm going away my baby,
I'm gonna leave you pretty gal
For a train passed by while you lay sleeping
I'll write you a letter on a dusty boxcar wall

I once had a love in old Kentucky
I once had a love in sunny Tennessee
But a New York gal brought me pain and sadness
Now I'm here as lonely as I can be

Chorus

City women bring you grief and sorrow
Country girls are as sweet as they can be
City women are as cold as they are shallow
But a country girl's love is as deep as the deep blue sea

Chorus

Oh when I die and go to heaven
That'll be tha last train ride I'll ever see
They'll put a silver spike upon my gravestone
And my casket beneath a weeping willow tree