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Memphis Train

from Postmark by Frank Gayer Martin

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Memphis Train
©2002 Frank G Martin 12/19/02

I’m traveling north
On a train bound for Memphis
I have but one purpose
To visit my sister
And purchase a gravestone
Inscribed with my father’s dear name

He died up in Memphis
While I finished high school
And lived with my brother
I’ll always remember
He told us he loved us
And he would return one day

On that Memphis train
I’m on my way
Memphis train

Well I’m from Louisiana
A farm near Morganza
My brother sells lumber
They ship up the river
I’d make a good a doctor
But they say there’s war on the way

Now I work for the railroad
With clerks and the porters
Who carry the baggage
For sons and for daughters
Of the last southern gentry
Who know what it’s like to own slaves

Chorus

My father taught English
To emigrant children
That washed up in eddies
Of the great Mississippi
Up from New Orleans
To backcountry hills made of clay

They called him a dreamer
He worked as a cooper
He spoke French and German
And was trained with a camera
He married Amanda
Now ten children carry his name

credits

from Postmark, released June 1, 2006
Frank Gayer Martin: vocals, guitars, lap steel
Randy Utterback: Fiddle
Lisa Dancing-Light: harmony vocals
Doug Whitney: bass
Paula Valentine: drums, percussion

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