Lonnie Johnson

Death Valley Is Just Half Way To My Home

Lonnie Johnson


Looked down that long old lonesome road 
Looked down that long old lonesome road 
My poor feet is gettin' tired, but still I've got to go 
There's no train to my home town, ain't but the one way to go 
There's no train to my home town, ain't but the one way to go 
That's mile after mile, trampin' that muddy road 
It's just one thing, that worries me both night and day 
Ain't but one thing, that worries me both night and day 
There's a place they call Death Valley, and it's just halfway 
You can't see a house, in twenty-five miles around 
I can't see nobody, goin' towards my ol' home town 
I've still got three hundred miles to go, and my poor feet is giving down 
I can hear the wild cats and panthers, howl when the sun go down 
Can you hear the wild cats and panthers, howlin' when the sun go down 
And I've got to go through Death Valley, to get to my old home town 
I've been trampin' this lonely road, forty nights and days 
My poor legs is gettin' tired, don't help me some ways 
'Cause I've got three hundred miles to go, trampin' in this mud and clay