The narrator of this cowboy lament is on his way to meet the train that carries his dead love. "Oh I hear that train a comin' / Bringin' my darling back home / Six more miles to the graveyard / Never on this earth no more to roam." There's a pure honky-tonk sound here, the guitars slapping like percussion and Williams lingering over the syllables like a yodeler — and yet it also perfectly captures an eerie, hushed feeling of gloom. Somehow Williams could do it all.
"A great song mutates, makes quantum leaps, turns up again like the prodigal son. It crosses genres. Could be punk rock, ragtime, folk-rock, or zydeco, and can be played in a lot of different styles, multiple styles... A great song is the sum of all things." - Bob Dylan
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