She was chock full of ambitions
when she was just a girl,
and she always told her mama,
"I'll go out in the world.
I am gonna be somebody,
there's nothin' I will lack.
This ol' town's too small to hold me,
ain't never comin' back!"
When she thought that she was ready,
her mama up and died,
and she had to help her daddy,
but she still had that pride.
'Midst the cookin' and the cleanin',
her resolve never crack'd;
"Cause I know I'll soon be leavin'
ain't never comin' back!"
When her daddy followed mama
to heaven's pearly gate,
and she had to marry Charlie
so the farm they'd not take;
when her own babes started comin'
with bottoms soundly smack'd,
she said, "When I am a lady,
ain't never comin' back!"
When she lost one child to fever
and Charlie took to drink;
when she thought she would go crazy
and teetered on the brink;
there was one thing that sustained her
when her whole world was black,
and that one thing was her motto~
"Ain't never comin' back!"
Now she sits in her rocker with
a grandchild on her knee;
with sons to work the farm for her
and lots of family;
and she listens for the whistle
of train upon the track;
with her last breath, she sighs softly,
"Ain't never comin' back."
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