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Boomer's Story

Ry Cooder

Boomer's Story

1972

the country
I've travelled everywhere
I been on every Branch Line railroad
And I never paid a nickel fare
I been from Maine to Califor'ny
And from Canada

the Mississippi line
Everybody along the track knowed Casey by the sound of his whistle
They heard him coming comin' by Byhalia
Olive Branch Mississippi That's

Sitting right here on the window sill
Looks like I'm out of luck
Crawling on the catwalk
I'm just a sitting duck

Hanging from a branch
I feel your

the branch over seas
She thicker than a tree trunk, I'm tryna start plantin' the seeds (hey)
She be on wood 'cause she seen I got hand full of green
Your

I bore alone
Dem roots of sin sewn of my kin
I've bled of blood and bone
Bare my weathered skin
I've grown
Along dem backs of dem railroad track said

the soul out of me and them damn dogs don't scare me
 
Got this tree branch, I’ma carry it
Use it as a weapon against anything until I find Harriet
I heard

but up here
Up here
Up here
I'm a stray branch
Cut me from the tree
Over a decade still no leaves
Doubt is a heavy cloud
I still carry mine around

echoing
Listen to me
You're delicate and savage and supreme
A war within a war
A dream within a dream
Boy

Every street in every city
Every railroad, every

You might as well have been tied down
Tied down to a railroad track
You might as well have been pushed off
Niagara Falls in a paper sack
You might