Chorus:  I’m going away my baby,  I’m gonna leave you pretty gal  For a train passed by while you lay sleeping  I’ll write you a letter on a dusty boxcar wall    I once had a love in old Kentucky  I once had a love in sunny Tennessee  But a New York gal brought me pain and sadness  Now I’m here as lonely as I can be    Chorus    City women bring you grief and sorrow  Country girls are as sweet as they can be  City women are as cold as they are shallow  But a country girl’s love is as deep as the deep blue sea    Chorus    Oh when I die and go to heaven  That’ll be tha last train ride I’ll ever see  They’ll put a silver spike upon my gravestone  And my casket beneath a weeping willow tree