Momma' Got Hit By A Train
My Momma' raised us as best she could,
On a run
down country farm,
And was always watchin' out for us,
To protect us from
big city harm.
My Daddy had died while we was young,
So Momma'
had to learn real fast,
How best to raise her family of five,
And to stop
us from all smokin' grass!
We learned how to drink at a very young age,
And
we sure had our fair share of fights,
Why, even our Momma' got hooked on
booze,
When we all went to town Saturday nights.
Me and my brothers had a temper and such,
And my
Mom says we got it from Paw,
But I ain't never quite seen the likes,
Of my
Momma' with that ole chain saw!
One day a man from the bank called Maw,
And
threatened to foreclose on our farm,
I'll be danged if the next thing I seen
Momma' do,
Was plumb threaten that banker with harm.
Well now, he didn't take too kindly to that,
And
decided to drive out to our home,
That was his biggest and last grave
mistake,
And he shoulda' left our poor Momma' alone.
No sooner had he drove to the front of the
porch,
When Momma' took the shotgun offa' the wall,
She done shot that old
banker straight through the heart,
And down to the ground he did
fall!
Us kids started sceamin' to put the gun
down,
'Course by that time the damage was done,
Weren't long after that
and the sheriff arrived,
And drove away carryin' our poor ole
Mom.
She spent twenty years in prison for the bankers
death,
And done called me when her time had been served,
I was to pick her
up at the ole train station,
But on that night I was drunk and eyes
blurred.
I knew she wouldn'a took kindly to me
sayin' no,
So I jumped in my old pickup truck,
I drove hell bent for
leather just as fast as I could,
Not ever thinkin' I was in for
bad luck.
There was my Momma' standin' a waitin' for
me,
And I hollered, "Hey Momma'....over here"!,
She stepped off the
platform and ran toward my truck,
But that damn ole train didn't see
her.
I heard a loud scream and there lay my Maw,
All
bloodied, crippled, and lame,
You can bet you azz I'll never forget,
The
night my Momma' got hit by that train!
~valentyne~ ©
You Don't Have To Call Me Darlin'
David Allen Coe
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