Travelin' down this lonesome railroad Silver Ribbons with no ends   A million miles a crossties mark a million miles I've been   I've picked peaches down in Georgia apples up in Maine   Pulled cotton out in Texas ridin' on the train      I was just a lad of seventeen my daddy turned me loose   Silver Ribbons callin' me engine and caboose   I can't recall my mother she left when I was two   Brunets blondes and red heads were the only love I knew   Don't ask me where I'm going don't ask me where I've been   Those Silver Ribbons will take me there there and back again   One more time back again      Travelin' to the tune of freight wheels is such a lonely sound   Hear that lonesome whistle blow as leavin' another town   I wish someone was waitin' somewhere to welcome me   Then those Silver Ribbons would see no more of me   Don't ask me where I'm going...