Brokenback Fool

from Old Road Blues by Ray Woodruff

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Castle Garden from the green I signed on thin and lean
To head west for my stew
Lucky Omaha heard Sacramento call
And rode an iron horse through
Ladders through the plains hammers through the rains
Treated like a mindless old mule
reeling with the heat frostbit with the sleet
I’ll be your broken back fool.

Thomas Clark Durant still rolling in his junta
Can pave the plains with his stocks
I’ll gandy dance by day for a hell on wheels to lay
To pound the nail through the clock
Coughing in the smoke, an artist with three strokes
A 15 pound Nelson my tool.
John Henry on a pile of 4000 spikes a mile
I’ll be your broken back fool.
John Henry full of bile with 12000 strokes a mile
I’ll be your broken back fool.

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from Old Road Blues, released May 1, 2009

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Ray Woodruff Richmond, Virginia

Songwriter. Guitarist. Instrumentalist. Visuals. Lost writer.

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