Big River Train
Porter Wagoner

In the land of the Ponderosa pine there runs a giant 8-wheeler
Known as the Big River Train
Just before she disappears into the forset she passes by a prison
Where many-a convicts has dreamed of riding her rails to freedom
I'd like to tel you a story as it was told to me
It's called The Legend Of The Big River Train

Keep that 8-wheel drive a rollin' let her lonesome whistle whine
For it tells the world a story as it whistles through the pines
In the death car lies a convict with a number for his name
And he's going home this morning on that old Big River Train
Well they brought him to this prison twenty years ago this date
Changed his name into a number then he became my prison mate
Somehow I knew he wasn't guilty from the very day he came
Yet they brought him to this prison on that old Big River Train
We became the best of buddies side by side through thick and thin
Then one night he told his story how he have framed by evil men
Men who bought and bribed the jury seekin' only selfish gain
Yes they sent an honest man to prison condemned him to a life of shame
Many many times I've heard him tell me when he'd hear that whistle blow
That same old train that brought me here pal is gonna take me home I know
I'll ride it back to my home country and there I'll clear my honest name
Well they shipped him back this morning on that old Big River Train
But he's gone to meek his Maker in a land that's bright and new
Gone to claim a peace of freedom that heaven knows was overdue
Of a crime he wasn't guilty just a victim of a frame
Yes he came and now he's leavin' on that old Big River Train
And he's going home this morning on that old Big River Train


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  (all My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers   (that's How I Learnt To Love) Good Old Country Mus...   10-4 Over And Out   4-0-33   A Satisfied Mind   A Satisfied Mind   A Satisfied Mind (1955)   A Satisfied Mind (Re-Recorded)   A Satisfied Mind [DVD]   Above And Beyond   Above And Beyond (the Call Of Love)   Afraid To Love Again   Agony Of Waiting   Albert Erving   All I Need Is You   All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers   Alley   Always Always   An Old Log Cabin for Sale   Angel Band   Another Day Another Dollar   Answer Is Love   Anymore   Anyplace You Want To Go   Anything's Better Than Nothing   As Long As I'm Dreaming   As Long As I'm Dreaming   Bad News Travels Fast   Bad News Travels Fast (in Our Town)   Ballad Of Love   Banks Of The Ohio   Barefoot Nellie   Barlow Chapin   Battle Of Little Big Horn   Be A Little Quieter   Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw   Be Careful of Stones That You Throw [Live]   Be Glad You Ain't Me   Be Proud Of Your Man   Beautiful Wings   Because One Of Us Was Wrong   Before I Met You   Before Our Weakness Gets Too Strong   Better Move It On Home   Between Us   Big Wheels   Big Wind   Black Jack's Bar   Blue Moon Of Kentucky   Blue Moon of Kentucky   Bones   Born To Lose   Boston Jail   Bottle Bottle   Bottle Let Me Down   Bottle Of Wine   Bottom Of The Bottle   Bride's Bouquet   Bride's Bouquet   Bringing Home The Bacon   Burning Bridges   Burning The Midnight Oil   Camptown Races   Can You Tell Me   Carroll County Accident   Carroll County Accident (1968)   Carroll County Accident (Re-Recorded)   Cassie   Charley's Picture   Childhood Playground   Christina   Closer By The Hour   Cold Dark Waters   Cold Hard Facts Of Life   Cold Hard Facts Of Life (Re-Recorded)   Come On In   Come On In (and Make Yourself A Home)   Come On In (and Make Yourself At Home)   Come to Me   Comes And Goes   Company's Comin'   Company's Comin'   Confessions Of A Broken Man   Conversation   Convict And The Rose   Cotton Fields   Country Music Has Gone To Town   County Farm   Cryin' Loud   Cryin' Loud   Crying My Heart Out Over You   Curse Of The Wild Weed Flower   Daddy And The Wine   Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man   Daddy's Working Boots   Dark End Of The Street   Darling Debra Jean   Dear Lonesome   Denise Mayree   Detroit City   Dig That Crazy Moon   Dim Lights Thick Smoke   Doll Face   Don't Let Me Cross Over   Don't Let Me Cross Over   Dooley   Dusty Delta Memories   Each Season Changes You   Eat Drink And Be Merry   Eat Drink And Be Merry (tomorrow You'll Cry)   Eat, Drink And Be Merry (1955)   Everything She Touches Gets The Blues   Fairchild   Fallen Leaves   Falling Again   Family Bible   Family Who Prays Never Shall Part   Farmer   Fight And Scratch   Fighting Kind   Find Out   Finish Line   First Mrs. Jones   Flame   Fog Has Lifted   Foggy Mountain Top   Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff   Freida   Frosty the Snowman   Funky Grass Band   Gathering In The Sky   George Leroy Chickashea   God Walks These Hills With Me   God's Wonderful Way   Gonna Find Me A Bluebird   Good Morning Neighbor   Graduation Day   Green Green Grass Of Home   Green Green Grass Of Home (re Recorded)   Green, Green Grass of Home   Hands Of Love   Happy Faces   Have I Told You Lately That I Love You   Haven't You Heard   Haven't You Heard   He's A Go-Getter   He's Alone Again Tonight   Head Over Heels In Love With You   Heartaches By The Number   Heartbreak Affair   Heaven Help Me   Her And The Car And The Mobile Home   Here's A Toast To Mama   Highway Headin' South   Holding Lonely Hands   Holding On To Nothin'   Home Is Where The Hurt Is   House Of Gold   House Of Shame   House Where Love Lives   How Close They Must Be   How Far Down Can I Go   How High Is The Mountain   Howdy Neighbor Howdy   Hundred Dollar Funeral   I Am Always Waiting   I Believe   I Betcha My Heart I Love You   I Can   I Can't Live With You (i Can't Live Without You)   I Can't Live With You   I Couldn't Care Less   I Couldn't Wait Forever   I Couldn't Care Less   I Couldn't Wait Forever   I Cried Again   I Didn't Mean It   I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby   I Dreamed I Saw America On Her Knees   I Found A Man   I Gotta Find Someone   I Gotta Find Someone (who Loves Like I Do)   I Guess I'm Crazy (for Loving You)   I Guess I'm Crazy   I Haven't Seen Mary In Years   I Heard That Lonesome Whistle   I Just Came To Smell The Flowers   I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye   I Know You're Married (but I Love You Still)   I Like Girls   I Like Girls   I Lived So Fast And Hard   I Relived My Life Today   I See a Bridge   I Should Be With You   I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name   I Thought Of God   I Threw Away The Rose   I Want to Be With You Always   I Want To Live Again   I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew   I Went Out Of My Way   I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home   I Wonder Where You Are Tonight   I Wouldn't Buy A Used Car From Him   I Wouldn't Buy A Used Car From Him   I'll Fly Away   I'll Go Down Swinging   I'll Meet You In Church Sunday Morning   I'll Start Tomorrow   I'll Take A Chance On Loving You   I'm A Long Way From Home   I'm Day Dreamin' Tonight   I'm Gonna Feed You Now   I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail   I'm Stepping Out Tonight   I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap   I'm Wasting Your Time (and You're Wasting Mine)   I've Been Down That Road Before   I've Been Married (just As Long As You Have)   I've Been This Way Too Long   I've Enjoyed As Much Of This As I Can Stand   I've Got Work To Do   I'll Fly Away   I'll Go Down Swinging   I'll Meet You In Church Sunday Morning   I'll Take A Chance On Loving You   I'm A Long Way From Home   I'm Gonna Feed You Now   I'm Stepping Out Tonight   I've Been Down That Road Before   I've Enjoyed As Much Of This As I Can Stand   If I Could Only Start Over   If I Lose My Mind   If Teardrops Were Pennies   If We Never Meet Again   In Each Love Some Pain Must Fall   In The Shadows Of The Wine   In the Sweet By and By   Is It Real   It Keeps Right On A Hurtin'   Ivory Tower   Jasper County Law   Jeannie's Afraid Of The Dark   Jim Johnson   Julie   Just Before Dawn   Just Between You And Me   Just For The Lonely Ones   Just Someone I Use To Know   Just Someone I Used To Know   Just Someone I Used To Know (feat. Dolly Parton)   Just The Two Of Us   Katy Did   Keep On Loving You   Keeper Of The Key   King Of The Cannon County Hills   Last Chance For Happiness   Last One To Touch Me   Last Thing On My Mind   Late At Night   Late Love Of Mine   Legend Of The Big Steeple   Let Me In   Let's Go All The Way   Let's Live For Tonight   Let's Go All The Way   Life Rides The Train   Lightening The Load   Like You Were Years Ago   Little Bird   Little Bitty Tear   Little Boy's Prayer   Little Boy's Prayer   Little Cabin Home On The Hill   Little Cabin Home on the Hill   Little Shirt My Mother Made For Me   Living In The Past   Lonely Comin' Down   Lonelyville   Look What Love Has Done To Me   Lord Build Me A Cabin In Glory   Lost Forever In Your Kiss   Louisiana Saturday Night   Love City   Love Is Worth Living   Love To Remember   Love With Feeling   Love You're So Beautiful Tonight   Love's All Over   Love's Melody   Lovin' Lies   Making Plans (1980)   Malena   Mama   Man In The Little White Suit   Many Kinds Of Love   May You Never Be Alone   Medley:   Melinda   Memories From The Past   Men With Broken Hearts   Mendy Never Sleeps   Midnight   Milwaukee Here I Come   Misery Loves Company   Misery Loves Company (1962)   Misery Loves Company (Re-Recorded)   Moments Of Meditation   Mommie Ain't That Daddy   More Than Words Can Tell   My Baby Turns The Lights On Uptown   My Baby's Not Here (in Town Tonight)   My Baby's Not Here   My Boys   My Dad   My Greatest Weakness   My Hands Are Tied   My Last Two Tens   My Last Two Tens   My Many Hurried Southern Trips   My Name Is Mud   My Ramblin' Boy   My Special Prayer Request   My Tears Are Overdue   No Love Left   No Reason To Hurry Home   Not A Cloud In The Sky   Nothing Between   Old Black Kettle   Old Camp Meetin' Time   Old Camp Meetin' Time   Old Log Cabin For Sale   Old Log Cabin for Sale   Old Memory Gets In My Eyes   Ole Slew Foot   On And On   Once More   One Day At A Time   One Dime For Wine   One More Dime   One More Time   One Way Ticket To The Blues   Our Song Of Love   Out Of Sight Out Of Mind   Out Of The Silence (came A Song)   Pain Of Loving You   Party   Pay Day   Peace On Earth Begins Today   Pick Me Up On Your Way Down   Picture From Life's Other Side   Picture From Life's Other Side   Poor Folks Town   Possum Holler   Private Little World   Put It Off Until Tomorrow   Ragged Angel   Rank Strangers   Right Combination   Rock Of Ages   Rock-A-Bye Boogie   Rocky Top   Roses Out Of Season   Rubber Room   Run That By Me One More Time   Satan's River   Satisfied Mind   Seeing Her Only Reminded Me Of You   Settin' The Woods On Fire   Settin' The Woods On Fire   She Burnt The Little Roadside Tavern Down   She Left Me Love   She's Everywhere   Shopworn   Shutters And Boards   Sidewalks Of Chicago   Silent Kind   Silver Sandals   Silver Threads And Golden Needles   Simple As I Am   Sing Me Back Home   Skid Row Joe   Sleep   Slip Away Today   Snakes Crawl At Night   Something To Reach For   Somewhere Along The Way   Somewhere Between   Somewhere In The Night   Sorrow On The Rocks   Sorrow On The Rocks (Re-Recorded)   Sorrow Overtakes The Wine   Sorrow's Tearing Down The House   Sorrow's Tearing Down The House   Soul Of A Convict   Southern Bound   Stella Dear Sweet Stella   Stranger's Story   Sugarfoot Rag   Sun Don't Shine (on The Same Dog Every Day)   Sunny Side Of The Mountain   Suppertime   Sweet Fern   Sweet Rachel Ann   Swinging Doors   Take Away   Take Good Care Of Her   Talk Back Trembling Lips   Tell Her Lies And Feed Her Candy   Tennessee Border   Tennessee Stud   That's It   That's When Love Will Mean The Most   That's It   The Battle of Little Big Horn   The Bottle Let Me Down [Remake]   The Bottom of the Bottle   The Bottom of the Bottle [Remake]   The Carroll County Accident   The Cold Hard Facts of Life   The Convict and the Rose   The Farmer and the Lord   The First Mrs. Jones   The Last One To Touch Me   The Rubber Room   The Snakes Crawl at Night   There Never Was A Time   There'd Be No Need For A Heaven   There'll Be Love   There's A Higher Power   There's A Rainbow In Every Teardrop   There's A Higher Power   There's A Rainbow In Every Teardrop   There's Always One   They're All Going Home But One   Thirty Pieces Of Silver   This Night   This Time Has Gotta Be Our Last Time   Thoughtfulness   Through The Eyes Of A Blind Man   Through This World Of Mine   Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine   Together Always   Together You And I   Tomorrow Is Forever   Tomorrow We'll Retire   Tomorrow We'll Retire   Tore Down   Town Drunk   Trademark   Tragic Romance   Treat Her Kind   Tricks Of The Trade   Trouble In The Amen Corner   Truth Or A Lie   Try Being Lonely   Try Me One More Time   Tryin' To Forget The Blues   Tryin' To Forget The Blues   Turn The Jukebox Up Louder   Two Of A Kind   Two Sides To Every Story   Uncle Pen   Violet And A Rose   Wait A Little Longer Please Jesus   Wake Up Jacob   Wakin' Up The Crowd   Waldo The Weirdo   Walk On Fool   Watching   Way He Said Your Name   Way I See You   We Can't Let This Happen To Us   We Could   We Found It   What Ain't To Be Just Might Happen   What I'd Give To Hear A Baby Cry   What Would You Do   What Would You Do (if Jesus Came To Your House)   When I Drink My Wine   When I Reach That City   When You're Hot You're Hot   Where Does Love Go   Where No One Stands Alone   Where The Old Red River Flows   Where The Soul Never Dies   Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me   Why Me Lord   Will You Be Loving Another Man   Will You Be Loving Another Man   Wings of a Dove   Wino   With You   Words And Music   World Needs A Washin'   World Without Music   Y'all Come   Y'all Come   You   You And Me Her And Him   You Can't Make A Heel Toe The Mark   You Gotta Have A License   You're Not Home Yet   Your Kind Of People   Your Love   Your Old Love Letters   Your Old Love Letters (1961)   Yours Love

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