Pushin On
I left Oklahoma with an east wind on my tail
Out to make my bread and butter on that South Pacific rail
In eighteen years of living I'd spent thirteen plowing sand
Then the farm blowed off to Kansas and daddy said you are a man
Darkness chased the daylight as the sun came crashin down
Cross the Rolling Plains of Texas, to the west where money's found
I was thinking back on Cheyenne and the wrecks that we called home
I was thinking bout deliverance, I was thinking I'm alone
Pushin on to a better way of life that I just know
Is sitting round the corner, waiting for me when I go
Pushin on to a better way to be then I just left
If you ain't going with me, walk away I'm pushin on
Rollin on through Tucson and a Bull came crashing
He throwed out all the hobos and he took a little tin
He looked at me, I said Tucson ain't a bad place so they say
If you try to throw me off this plane we'll both be there today
Work was hard to come by in them Central Valley towns
When you farm to give your good away a living can't be found
So I hopped a north bound freight car, up that coast road I did wind
And the sunlight filtered through the cracks, like the hope we chance to find
Pushin on to a better way of life that I just know
Is sitting round the corner, waiting for me when I go
Pushin on to a better way to be then I just left
If you ain't going with me, walk away I'm pushin on
Well I found a man in Frisco who was lookin for a hand
Turning mountains into mudslides, taking gold dust from the land
In seven days of turning time he'd pay me seven bills
I got two squares and a bedroll in a shack up on the hill
I left California with a west wind on my tail
Headed back to Oklahoma on that South Pacific rail
With a future in my pocket and a grub stake on my back
The soreness of my labors and a family down the track
Well it's sixty odd years later, and I still hear the sounds
Of a mother weeping softly and a freight train leaving town
I can feel the wind rush by me in the dark before the dawn
And I see that sun a'risin, for a man who's pushin on
Out to make my bread and butter on that South Pacific rail
In eighteen years of living I'd spent thirteen plowing sand
Then the farm blowed off to Kansas and daddy said you are a man
Darkness chased the daylight as the sun came crashin down
Cross the Rolling Plains of Texas, to the west where money's found
I was thinking back on Cheyenne and the wrecks that we called home
I was thinking bout deliverance, I was thinking I'm alone
Pushin on to a better way of life that I just know
Is sitting round the corner, waiting for me when I go
Pushin on to a better way to be then I just left
If you ain't going with me, walk away I'm pushin on
Rollin on through Tucson and a Bull came crashing
He throwed out all the hobos and he took a little tin
He looked at me, I said Tucson ain't a bad place so they say
If you try to throw me off this plane we'll both be there today
Work was hard to come by in them Central Valley towns
When you farm to give your good away a living can't be found
So I hopped a north bound freight car, up that coast road I did wind
And the sunlight filtered through the cracks, like the hope we chance to find
Pushin on to a better way of life that I just know
Is sitting round the corner, waiting for me when I go
Pushin on to a better way to be then I just left
If you ain't going with me, walk away I'm pushin on
Well I found a man in Frisco who was lookin for a hand
Turning mountains into mudslides, taking gold dust from the land
In seven days of turning time he'd pay me seven bills
I got two squares and a bedroll in a shack up on the hill
I left California with a west wind on my tail
Headed back to Oklahoma on that South Pacific rail
With a future in my pocket and a grub stake on my back
The soreness of my labors and a family down the track
Well it's sixty odd years later, and I still hear the sounds
Of a mother weeping softly and a freight train leaving town
I can feel the wind rush by me in the dark before the dawn
And I see that sun a'risin, for a man who's pushin on
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Writer(s): Chad Boyd
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