The Carter Family - The Broken Down Tramp Lyrics

Lyrics The Broken Down Tramp - The Carter Family



I'm a broken down tramp without money
My clothes are all tattered and torn
And I am so sad and so lonely
I wish I had never been born
All through this wide world I have wandered
Inquiring for something to do
But whenever I ask for a job of work
They say they have none for a tramp
Now drink was the cause of my downfall
And the money I had I've outrun
And the friends that were mine when I had it
Now pass by and call me a bum
Now don't be too hasty to judge me
As I drift along with the tide
My clothes may be ragged and dirty
But a clean heart is beating inside
One night on a dark lonely railroad
A hobo all hungry and cold
Saw an empty boxcar on the siding
He climbed in and closed up the door
Six months he had rode on the railway
When the brakeman came 'round with his light
He was shoved from the car and was killed by the train
Because he was only a tramp
Now young men, let this be a warning
For all you who long for the road
Better stick to the straight life and don't be like me
A poor bum to die in the cold



Writer(s): A.P. CARTER


The Carter Family - Volume Two 1935-1941
Album Volume Two 1935-1941
date of release
02-08-2010

1 Look Away From the Cross
2 Little Poplar Log House On the Hill
3 Glory To The Lamb
4 Behind These Stone Walls
5 The Dying Mother
6 Sinking In The Lonesome Sea
7 Buddies In The Saddle
8 He Took a White Rose From Her Hair
9 Heaven's Radio
10 Can the Circle Be Unbroken
11 Beautiful Home
12 Let's Be Lovers Again
13 There'll Be No Distinction There
14 Your Mother Still Prays (For You Jack)
15 Give Him One More As He Goes
16 Kissing Is a Crime
17 Lonesome For You Darling
18 Don't Forget Me Little Darling
19 Blackie's Gunman
20 You've Got To Righten That Wrong
21 Sad and Lonesome Day
22 By The Touch Of Her Hand
23 Meeting In The Air
24 East Virginia Blues No.2
25 My Home Among the Hills
26 My Old Virginia Home
27 Black Jack David
28 My Virginia Rose Is Blooming
29 We Shall Rise
30 My Texas Girl
31 No Other's Bride I'll Be
32 I Found You Among The Roses
33 Gathering Flowers From The Hillside
34 Bear Creek Blues
35 I'll Never Forsake You
36 Gospel Ship
37 Little Black Train
38 Beautiful Isle O'er The Sea
39 Keep On The Sunny Side
40 It's A Long Road To Travel Alone
41 Why Do You Cry, Little Darling?
42 River of Jordan
43 Lonesome Valley
44 Lonesome Homesick Blues
45 God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign
46 Dark and Stormy Weather
47 Single Girl, Married Girl
48 In the Valley of the Shenandoah
49 The Fate of Dewey Lee
50 The Girl On The Greenbrier Shore
51 Something Got a Hold of Me
52 Wildwood Flower
53 Sea of Galilee
54 Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
55 Don't Forget This Song
56 Keep On the Firing Line
57 My Clinch Mountain Home
58 The Wave On the Sea
59 The Storms Are On the Ocean
60 The Rambling Boy
61 Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone
62 Broken Hearted Lover
63 Little Darling Pal Of Mine
64 The Homestead On the Farm
65 Cannonball Blues
66 Meet Me By the Moonlight Alone
67 On the Rock Where Moses Stood
68 Lulu Walls
69 I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
70 Worried Man Blues
71 My Dixie Darling
72 Give Me Your Love And I'll Give You Mine
73 Are You Lonesome Tonight
74 The Last Move For Me
75 The Wayworn Traveller
76 Just Another Broken Heart
77 When Silver Threads Are Gold Again
78 There's No One Like Mother To Me
79 In a Little Village Churchyard
80 Jealous Hearted Me
81 My Native Home
82 Sweet Heaven In My View
83 No Depression
84 Bonny Blue Eyes
85 My Honey Lou
86 In the Shadow of the Eyes
87 Answer To Weeping Willow
88 You've Been A Friend To Me
89 Where the Silvery Colorado Wends Its Way
90 Lay My Head Beneath The Rose
91 The Broken Down Tramp
92 Lover's Lane
93 Hold Fast To The Right
94 Lord I'm In Your Care
95 Funny When You Feel That Way
96 In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain
97 Hello Stranger
98 Never Let The Devil Get The Upper Hand Of You
99 When This Evening Sun Goes Down
100 Jim Blakes Message
101 Honey In The Rock
102 Look How This World Has Made a Change
103 The Little Girl That Played On My Knee
104 You Better Let That Liar Alone
105 Farewell Nellie
106 The Only Girl (I Ever Cared About)
107 Goodbye to the Plains
108 My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains
109 Dark Haired True Lover
110 He Never Came Back
111 Happy In The Prison
112 Walking In The King's Highway
113 St. Regious Girl
114 Just A Few More Days
115 Bring Back My Boy
116 It Is Better Farther On
117 Charlie And Nellie
118 Cuban Soldier
119 The Heart That Was Broken For Me
120 You're Nothing More to Me
121 Stern Old Bachelor
122 Little Joe
123 Reckless Motorman
124 You Denied Your Love
125 Oh Take Me Back
126 You Are My Flower
127 Who's That Knocking At My Window?
128 They Call Her Mother
129 Coal Miner's Blues
130 Young Freda Bolt




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