Milwaukee

(album: Glow - 1976)

Well well well well well
Keep on talking 'bout a sweet train
Born in my mama's dream to be happy
Born in my mama's dream to be happy
Sweet train, keep on rolling
Sweet train, Milwaukee road

See the moon moving along the sky, yes
Here's a car moving along the highway
You moving to California with me
I'm almost

Two thousand miles from my home sweet home
Two thousand miles from the arms
That bore me
Two thousand miles from my sweet home
Milwaukee

Yeah yeah, talking 'bout Milwaukee

Oh this train screaming touched the sky
There's a rain clouding the road before me
Strange moaning and now
What did we thought that I would be
Find myself

Two thousand miles from my home sweet home
Two thousand miles from the arms
That bore me
Two thousand miles from my sweet home
Milwaukee

But I keep singing roll on, Milwaukee road
Roll in the rain and cold
Don't you know this train
Born in my mama's dream to be happy
It moves me
Singing roll on, Milwaukee road
Got to warm up the tracks and cold
Sweet train born in my mama's dream
To be happy

Well let me tell you something
Now you don't know
How they bring me down
Sometimes they try to bring me down
Let me inform you
Sometimes scrapping and scratching my back
Good man, well well
And I got the greatest urge
To leave this town
A dirty town of broken dreams
And broken hearts and broken lives

And twisted ghostly songs and souls
And wailing sunsets
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
And they say now don't you leave this town
Got to stick around now, kid
Just to see it crumble to the ground
Don't you leave this town
You got to stick around now, kid
Just to see it crumble to the ground
Tell me, say brother
Don't leave this town
Got to stick around
Watch it crumble now to the ground
Said don't you leave this town
Now stick around
Watch it crumble to the ground
I wake up early, yes
I wake up early, Lord
I wake up early in the morning
Sweating and crying and wailing
I wake up
See the moon moving along the sky
Lord, I been trying, trying
To pull some good luck my way
And all I need is someone to love me
Find myself

Two thousand miles from my home sweet home
Two thousand miles from the arms
That bore me
Two thousand miles from my sweet home
Milwaukee

But I keep singing roll on, Milwaukee road
Gonna roll in the rain and cold
Do you know this train
Was born in my mama's dream to be happy
You're so fine, singing roll on
Milwaukee road
Warm up the tracks and cold
Sweet train born in my mama's dream
To be happy

Yeah yeah, got to get it together
Gonna be happy, boy
Get yourself together