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Nobody Knows His Name
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John Hiatt
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A man in a Cadillac used to come around here
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Looking for a long black train
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Said bbay left town with an inginer
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Streets across the midnight rain board
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Street across the midnight rain
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When he was pretty young
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His buddy got killed with his rifle
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Now hes fighting never on dawn
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Now hes fighting never on dawn
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Window begins the rain
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Nightt so dark, there was nothing else shown
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Nobody knew his name, boy
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Nobody knew his name
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Running once in a while
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But he would be right back
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With a cup of coffee and an old newspaper
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Sitting by the side of tha tracks, boy
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Crying by the side of the tracks
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You tryin to keep from turning the tables
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Im walking horses I would suffer dawns
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But there was always some whiskey back in the stable
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If you knew where to look around, boys
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If you knew where to look around
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Window begins the rain
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Nightt so dark, there was nothing else shown
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Nobody knew his name, boy
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Nobody knew his name
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And they paid for each one
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Yeah, it didnt matter who won
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Somebody gonna tip him well, boys
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Somebody gonna tip him well
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I found him in his Cadillac car
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Right behind an old farm store
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He was sitting there like we was going
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And he wasnt coming back no more
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And he wasnt coming back no more
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