| Now bensenville is a train yard over in chicago
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| And the bumpers y’all well that’s just the coupling
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| Between the freight cars
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| And calay is california that’s wah that mean
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| And the choke picker that someone who picks artichokes
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| Now you got the story y’all
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| Do you hear st. |
| louis slim lost a leg
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| He just outside bensenville
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| For some damn reason he was riding on the bumpers
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| Act like a young man will
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| And now the last we spoke he was going down to memphis
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| Said he got himself a girl
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| Said going queer, riding these rails
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| Give himself back to the world
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| But me i’m going down out to calay
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| And i believe that we’re I fisrt met him?
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| So bo' lets put our coins together
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| And drink a bottle to st. |
| louis slim?
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| Well
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| Awlright
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| I hear the looking for choke pickers out in watsonville
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| Your welcome to tag along
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| And maybe someday when i’m old and grey
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| I’ll write this xxxx down in a song
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| But in the meantime i’m going out to calay
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| I believe that where I fistm met him
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| So bo' lets put our coins together
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| And drink a bottle to st. |
| louis slim
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| And drink a bottle to st. |
| louis slim
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| And drink a bottle to st. |
| louis slim
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| And drink a bottle to st. |
| louis' sleeve
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| You remember him
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| You remember him
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| But in the meantime i’m going out to calay
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| I believe that we’re both but him?
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| So bo' lets put our coins together
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| And drink a bottle to st. |
| louis slim
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| And drink a bottle to st. |
| louis slim
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| And drink a bottle to st. |
| louis slim
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| And drink a bottle to st. |
| louis slim
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| And drink a bottle to st. |
| louis
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| One bottle to st. |
| louis
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| One bottle to st. |
| louis slim |