Clandestine Long Journey South Lyrics

Long Journey South Lyrics

Jamie's gone away

to cross the widest plain

Find some undiscovered kings and princes

Jamie's jumped the train

to live bravely for a day

Ride the rails in some lost romances

Infamous hobos crouch in the car

Singing along in the night

old pioneers

looking for the lost frontier

under the dark western sky

and the night wore on

More people jumped the train

at Grass Valley the next day

Pulled out so fast they nearly lost their hold

Across the snow fields

And over ravines

Yellow skies of snowfall

the sun winks and dreams



::Chorus::

The mountains are marching

the deserts rolling home

It's a long ways away from a place we all know

I'll give you my hand

We'll roll like a stone

Show me the places the wild birds know



and the night wore on

Jamie sits and he knows

the place where we go

is oh, so much farther

than old Mexico

If I'm alone

I'd rather be here than home

I like to have a song to sing

the night wore on



Jamie's gone away

to catch the last of the trains

and it's a long journey south

Jamie jumped the train

when the world was dark and strange

and a smile played the corners of his mouth



the night wore on