Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The New Timer, artist - Bruce Springsteen. Date of issue: 20.11.1995
Song language: English
The New Timer |
| He rode the rails since the great depression |
| Fifty years out on the skids |
| He said you don’t cross nobody |
| You’ll be all right out here kid |
| Left my family in Pennsylvania |
| Searchin' for work I hit the road |
| I met Frank in east Texas |
| In a freight yard blown through with snow |
| From New Mexico to Colorado |
| California to the sea |
| Frank he showed me the ropes, sir |
| Just till I could get back on my feet |
| I hoed sugar beets outside of Firebaugh |
| I picked the peaches from the Marysville tree |
| They bunked us in a barn just like animals |
| Me and a hundred others just like me |
| We split up come the springtime |
| I never seen Frank again |
| 'Cept one rainy night he blew by me on grainer |
| Shouted my name and disappeared in the rain and the wind |
| They found him shot dead outside Stockton |
| His body lyin' on a muddy hill |
| Nothin' taken, nothin' stolen |
| Somebody killed him just to kill |
| Late that summer I was rollin' through the plains of Texas |
| A vision passed before my eyes A small house sittin' trackside |
| With the glow of the saviours beautiful light |
| A woman stood cookin' in the kitchen |
| Kid sat at the table with his old man |
| Now I wonder does my son miss me |
| Does he wonder where I am |
| Tonight I pick my campsite carefully |
| Outside the Sacramento Yard |
| Gather some wood and light a fire |
| In the early winter dark |
| Wind whistling cold I pull my coat around me |
| Make some coffee and stare out into the black night |
| I lie awake, I lie awake sir |
| With my machete by my side |
| My Jesus your gracious love and mercy |
| Tonight I’m sorry could not fill my heart |
| Like one good rifle |
| And the name of who I ought to kill |