Rock Island Line

Huddie Ledbetter/ Johnny Cash with his Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)

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	Now this here's a story about the Rock Island Line.

Well the Rock Island Line she runs down into New Orleans.

There's a big tollgate down there and you know

If you got certain things on board when you go through the tollgate

Well you don't have to pay the man no toll.

Well a train driver he pulled up to the tollgate

And a man hollered and asked him what all he had on board and said:

"I got livestock - I got livestock - I got cows, I got pigs

I got sheep, I got mules - I got all live stock!"

Well he said: "You're alright boy you don't have to pay no toll

You can just go right on through!" So he went on through the tollgate.

And as he went through he started pickin' up a little bit of speed

Pickin' up a little bit of steam

He got on through he turned and looked back at the man he said:

"Well I fooled you - I fooled you - I got pigiron

I got pigiron - I got old pigiron."

Looked cloudy in the west and it looked like rain - Round the curve came a passenger train.

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North bound train on a southbound track - He's alright a leavin' but he	won't be	back.

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Well I may be right and I may be wrong - But you're gonna miss me	when I'm	gone.

Well the engineer said before he died: There were two more drinks that he'd like to try!

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The conductor said: what could they be - A hot cup of coffee and a	cold glass of	tea!