Confederate Railroad When You Leave That Way (you Can Never Go Back) Lyrics

When You Leave That Way (you Can Never Go Back) Lyrics

I remember waking in the morning

To the sound of the rooster's
crow

Mamma cooking in the kitchen

Arthur Godfrey on the
radio



Me and Dad were just like strangers

We never did see eye to
eye

Came to blows one Sunday morning

So I packed my bags and I said
goodbye



CHORUS

When you leave that way you can never go back

A
train won't run on a torn up track

Sometimes I wish I'd never roamed,oh
no

'Cause when you leave that way you can never go home



Then I met
a girl in Knoxville

Oh, we set our wedding day

I left her standing at
the alter

With a baby on the way



REPEAT CHORUS



Lord I'd
love to see my mom and daddy

And what I'd give to hold that boy of
mine

I'd get down on my knees and I'd say I'm sorry

If I could only go
back one more time



But I killed a man in Houston

When he caught me
with his wife

And I told the preacher man to leave me alone

When he came
to read my rights



CHORUS

He said son,when you leave this way you
can never come back

A soul won't roll on a torn up track

All through
eternity you'll roam alone

'Cause when you leave this way you can never
come home

All through eternity you'll roam alone

'Cause when you leave
this way you can never come home