The Houston Kid

Come in from the cold you must be cold Thread bare against a freezing wind is a short time gettin' old Come and sit down tell me where you've been Rest your soul beside the fire till it's time to go again Take me back One more time Where the railroad

I'm back on board that '49 Ford in 1956 Long before the sun came up way out in the sticks The headlights showed a two rut road way back up in the pines First time I heard Johnny Cash sing I Walk The Line I got my thrill behind the wheel upon my daddy

The rock of my soul went to church on Sunday The rock of my soul went to work on Monday Clean across the levy by the railroad tracks The other side of Houston in a two room shack Sweeping out confetti from a third grade classroom The rock of my soul

I put away fifteen grand doing one-night stands mostly liquor stores and fillin' stations Me and this peepin' Tom by the name of J.D. Swan and any number of his odd blood relations This was armed robbery 1957 and mostly our getaways were clean Then I

So I'm an orphan, now, out here on my own And it's hard to know where I belong Just like the sun will rise, night will fall I know love is all I need I know love is all I need I know love is all I need That's all I know An image I recall, a picture o