When I die Lord won't you
put my soul up on a train
Won't you send it southbound
Give it a cool blues-man name
I've been lost on them back roads
so many times
I've gone blind
Losing faith
in my family had driven me
out of my damn mind
But on the south side of heaven
won't you take me home
Cause I've been broke down
for so long and Lord
it's getting cold
I've been a desperado
in West Texas for so long Lord
I need a change
For ten long years
this old place ain't
seen a drop of rain
And that wind blows everyday Lord
all like a desert snow
Like a lost bound train running
on cocaine and outta control
But on the south side of heaven
won't you take me home
Cause I've been broke down
for so long and Lord
it's getting cold
Long down the Louisiana byways
Lonesome highways roll on
Won't you take me
where the poor man lives
Its where I call my home
And can't you see that a breeze
nothin' but a change in pace
Money can't buy my soul
cause it comes
from a hard earned place
But on the south side of heaven
won't you take me home
Cause I've been broke down
for so long and Lord
it's getting cold
But on the south side of heaven
won't you take me home
Cause I've been broke down
for so long and Lord
it's getting cold