Lyric No riders

I am just a poor girl

Trying to get back home

Waiting by the station

Barefoot on the stones

Seven years from Ponchatoula

Not one penny in my hand

Please mister help me

I come so far I cannot stand



He said We don t take no riders

No riders on this train

Go on ask the brakeman

He ll tell you just the same

I don t take no riders

Don t take no riders on this train

Best move on down the line, mama

Go on back from where you came



I done left my mama

When I was but a child

Took off with a young man

Started running wild

Seven years from Ponchatoula

Ain t nothin gone my way

Please mister help me

Can t you hear a word I say?



He said We don t take no riders

No riders on this train

Go on ask the brakeman

He ll tell you just the same

I don t take no riders

Don t take no riders on this train

Best move on down the line, mama

Go on back from where you came