Cobar Line

(album: Three Chain Road - 1993)

My pockets were empty, my luck had run cold
City life and me just don't get on
On the streets and hungry, down and out
Going back to Cobar, goodbye Sydney town

I jumped a freight, I'm heading back
My destination is down that railroad track
I'm gonna ride that Cobar Line
Back to the life I left behind
It's not a lot but I know its mine
I'm heading back on down the Cobar Line

Going back to Ruby the last of her kind
In better days she was queen of the mine
In the room at the back she's an old miners friend
There'll be food on the table, a roof over my head

I jumped a freight, I'm heading back
My destination is down that railroad track
I'm gonna ride that Cobar Line
Back to the life I left behind
It's not a lot but I know its mine
I'm heading back on down the Cobar Line

Going back to the company to the twelve hour shifts
Back to the dirt and the dust and the grit
Down in a hole where the sun never goes
Doing time on the mother lode

I jumped a freight, I'm heading back
My destiny is down that railroad track
I'm gonna ride the Cobar line
Back to the life I left behind
It's not a lot but it's all mine
I'm gonna ride the Cobar line
Back to the life I left behind
It's not a lot but it's all mine
I'm heading back on down the Cobar Line