Jeannie C Riley No Brass Band Lyrics

No Brass Band Lyrics

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 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