Rising Sons Featuring Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder

E B A G#m B E B A B My nights have been lonely since I've been in Tulsa county A B EAnd I really don't know what I'm gonna do B A BI just might take a trip somewhere across the southern border A B ECause I know I've gotta get away from you A E AI don't know just where I'll go E B A G#m B EI believe I'll ride it down to Mexico down to Mexico E B A BGot your note in Charlston said you needed my assistance A B EBut when I got there you didn't need me then E B A BI may not be a wise man but I know this life your leading A B EYou learned your tricks from lots of other men A E AI don't know just where I'll go E B A G#m B EI believe I'll ride it down to Mexico down to Mexico From the "The Ballad Of Easy Rider" LP Columbia Records 1969

Though you've played at love and lost
And sorrow's turned your heart to frost
I will melt your heart again
Remember the feeling as a child
When you woke up and morning smiled
It's time you felt like you did then
There's just no percentage in remembering the past
It's time you learned to live again at last

Come with me
Leave yesterday behind
And take a giant step
Outside your mind

You stare at me in disbelief
You say for you there's no relief
But I swear I'll prove you wrong
Don't stay here in your lonely room
Just looking back at silent gloom
That's not where you belong
Come with me
I'll take you where the taste of life is green
And every day holds wonders to be seen

Well I woke up this morning woah-oh
And the sun refused to shine
I knew I'd leave my baby oh
With a troublin' mind
It rains every morning oh
And evening is the same
And it's gonna be a long time oh
'Til I hear the 2:10 train

Well I looked out my window oh
And I couldn't keep from cryin'
I knew the old 2:10 oh
Would take me down the line
That driver on that engine oh
Well he ain't no friend of mine
He's taken all the women oh
And he's left the men behind

Well now he won't be leaving Big Ben oh
For another seven years
I'm gonna find another baby oh
To laugh away my tears
When I get back to Houston woah-oh
I'm gonna shout and tell
How the Big Ben bought 'em oh
It's a living burning hell

Now when your lovin' baby leaves you oh
Don't you feel so bad
It makes you think about the good times oh
With the one time man you've had
He's crying don't leave me here baby
Shackled to a chain
But let me ride down with you oh
Along the 2:10 train