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.
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