About the days of hopping the freight across Canada - Confederation's Mother - this is From my book "Put Your Bum To Work in Vancouver".
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Story behind the song
About the days of hopping the freight across Canada - Confederation's Mother - this is From my book "Put Your Bum To Work in Vancouver".
With Ryuji Fujiwara on drums this was recorded in Tokyo on tape on August the 1st 1998. In 2006 I did a new guitar and a new vocal track.
Lyrics
Movin' On Down The Railway Track
Movin' on down the railway track
On the train movin' all night and day.
Sometimes I wish I had my old living back,
Clean sheets, a change of clothes 'n' three meals everyday.
But we are riddin' on her - Confederation's mother -
The present is now, the rest is passing.
Yes the train's movin' to I don't know where.
Sure do wish I had clean underwear.
Life and the train slows down. - clang bang clang -
Life and the rails speed up. - bang clang bang -
2nd verse - Out the boxcar door, see; the mountain pass,
There's our train's beginning, through the trees bending.
Like a snake going through blades of grass
As, beyond a lake glints the tail in the other heading.
When we hopped the freight, we didn't leave a world behind
We aspire to a hobo's life on these tracks.
When I get hungry there's nothing to eat.
There's nothin' ahead but miles of wheat.
Lyrics & versification, 1984, Southern Pines, North Carolina
Music Oct. 1, 1988, Vancouver
Chords & demo April 30, Aug. 27, 1992 Japan