Northbound train   Take me home again   Northbound train   Blow that whistle and sing   I left my wife in pieces   My children on the run   I don't give a damn about the time or the money   Just let me get home to my honey   On the Northbound train      Long time ago   And I'm kicked and abused   Long time gone   I've been tangled and used   My hometown lies on the line ahead   You got to drift no longer, the preacher said   You lost your soul in the big bad city   Know you left you wife to the small town pity   Oh no! I never did right   My whole life's been on a long storm   There's only one thing sadder than the cold and rain   That's the midnight whistle on the train