"Reuben" Lesson
Added 2021-02-12 16:30:59 +0000 UTCf♯DF♯AD - I learned "Old Reuben" (aka Reuben's Train, Train 45, 500 Miles, 800 Miles, or just Reuben) from George Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky.
Old Reuben had a train ran from Hell to Betsy Layne
And I'd like to have been a driver on that line
The longest train I ever saw ran down that Brown Cove Line
The fastest train I ever saw carried away that woman of mine
Me and my woman had a little falling out she bundled up her clothes to leave
She stepped on that 2 o'clock train and I stepped on the 3
If you say yes we'll get married I guess I'll sidetrack my train and roll home
If you say no I'll railroad no more I'll pack up my grip and be gone.
That freight train wrecked last Saturday night it killed that woman of mine
They found one lock of her coal black hair her body has never been found
Pretty girls don't you weep pretty girls don't you moan
Pretty girls don't you leave your home
You caused me to weep you caused me to moan
You caused me to leave my home
Them long steel rails them short crossties
I'm walking my way to my home
