Jeannie C. Riley Lyrics
No Brass Band

The train whistle blew for Coal Road Crossin' in a
few more minutes we'll pull into town I'll have to
face the folks who'll come to meet us I'll try to
keep the tears from fallin' down It won't be the
way we always had it pictured the day me and daddy
went away He told 'em we'll come back so rich and
famous And you'll have a big brass band all set to
play But there'll be no brass band at the station
there'll be no smiles and no celebration For daddy
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there'll just be a black hearse waiting and no
brass band at the station

We left two years ago come next September the
letters I wrote were full of lies For me and daddy
never hit the big time we got our meals down in a
Welfare Line Daddy met up with some men who
planned a robbery They said with daddy's brains
he'd go real far But he never got beyond the first
Colt bullet Now daddy's in a pinebox in the
baggage car And there'll be no brass band... And
no brass band at the station