Tekst:
Roy Acuff

Tonight down here in the valley I'm lonesome and oh how I feel As I sit here alone in my cabin I can see your mansion on the hill Do you recall when

The sunshine comes from lonesome valley And all alone I must remain While far away through lonesome valley Comes a dying cry of the midnight train How

I was standing by my window On a cold and cloudy day When I saw the hearse come rolling To carry mother away Will the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord

They gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia Sayin', "Steve, you're way behind time This is not 38 but it's old 97 You must put her into Spencer on time

The news is out all over town That you've been seen a running round I know that I should leave But then I just can't go you win again This heart of mine

Everybody's going out and having fun I'm just a fool for staying home and having none I can't get over how she set, set me free, oh lonesome me A bad

I wanna hear it again Just the way it was back then When my mama sang to me It was love and harmony In that old time sunshine song With the mellowing

The sun is in the west, while I [Incomprehensible] The stillness of the night draws nigh Alone and lonesome too, I'm thinkin' just of you Dreamin' of

A long steel rail a short crosstie I'm on my way back home I'm on the train the king of them all That Streamlined Cannonball She moves along like a cannonball