Boxcar - Shovels & Rope

Well, ain’t it just like you and me to go down like that?

Bleedin' out in a boxcar, shot in the back

We were all out of luck, all out of time

Law was waitin' for us at the end of the line

Any minute now we knew we was gonna have to decide

Take a fat chance and come out gunning?

Or get out now and try to keep running

Down south?

Then she said, «Hey hey cut the rope

There’s no way I’m gonna let em get us both

So don’t stop running till you reach that coast

Let your pretty mama go up in smoke.»

Coming out of the harbor it was simple and new

Clean as clear water, you could see straight through

But in that old dustbowl when the money got low

It was all we could do to keep a nail in the floor

It showed on her face, you could tell by the lines

These desperate times

Pistol strapped and her hair was dyed

Gonna make her money like Bonnie and Clyde

We’ll be alright

'Til she said, «Hey hey cut the rope

There’s no way I’m gonna let em get us both

So don’t stop running till you reach that coast

Let your pretty mama go up in smoke.»

Don’t let the sorrow of it get you down

Change your last name and try your luck around

And if they ever come to ask about me Tell em that you knew me and you kinda liked me I ain’t afraid to go it on my own

You can make a run and make it all alone

You’ll be alright

End of the line, the engine’s still burning

Just like the wheels, the hands keep turning

'Round and 'round

'Til time ran out

She said, «Hey hey cut the rope

There’s no way I’m gonna let em get us both

So don’t stop running till you reach that coast

Let your pretty mama go up in smoke.»

She said, «Hey hey cut the rope

There’s no way I’m gonna let em get us both

So don’t stop running till you reach that coast

Let your pretty mama go up in smoke.»