| Now bensenville is a train yard over in chicago | 
| And the bumpers y’all well that’s just the coupling | 
| Between the freight cars | 
| And calay is california that’s wah that mean | 
| And the choke picker that someone who picks artichokes | 
| Now you got the story y’all | 
| Do you hear st. | 
| louis slim lost a leg | 
| He just outside bensenville | 
| For some damn reason he was riding on the bumpers | 
| Act like a young man will | 
| And now the last we spoke he was going down to memphis | 
| Said he got himself a girl | 
| Said going queer, riding these rails | 
| Give himself back to the world | 
| But me i’m going down out to calay | 
| And i believe that we’re I fisrt met him? | 
| So bo' lets put our coins together | 
| And drink a bottle to st. | 
| louis slim? | 
| Well | 
| Awlright | 
| I hear the looking for choke pickers out in watsonville | 
| Your welcome to tag along | 
| And maybe someday when i’m old and grey | 
| I’ll write this xxxx down in a song | 
| But in the meantime i’m going out to calay | 
| I believe that where I fistm met him | 
| So bo' lets put our coins together | 
| And drink a bottle to st. | 
| louis slim | 
| And drink a bottle to st. | 
| louis slim | 
| And drink a bottle to st. | 
| louis slim | 
| And drink a bottle to st. | 
| louis' sleeve | 
| You remember him | 
| You remember him | 
| But in the meantime i’m going out to calay | 
| I believe that we’re both but him? | 
| So bo' lets put our coins together | 
| And drink a bottle to st. | 
| louis slim | 
| And drink a bottle to st. | 
| louis slim | 
| And drink a bottle to st. | 
| louis slim | 
| And drink a bottle to st. | 
| louis slim | 
| And drink a bottle to st. | 
| louis | 
| One bottle to st. | 
| louis | 
| One bottle to st. | 
| louis slim |