Unloading boxcars on Erie Street for quick money

taking anything that came along always on the run

which was anywhere and going because I never

stood still and sold siding, shoes, awnings, pots & pans

you name it whatever came around the block

I jumped and rode it until I got bucked or bored

waiting for that one train the great chance to ride the rattling rails

down that track U. S. on the boxcar that held my name

or anyhow that?s what I thought I was waiting on

until it came and I went