No Brass Band

[Verse 1]
The train whistle blew for Coal Road Crossin'
In a few more minutes, we'll pull into town
I'll have to face the folks who'll come to meet us
I'll try to keep the tears from falling down

[Verse 2]
It won't be the way we always had it pictured
The day me and Daddy went away
He told 'em we'll come back so rich and famous
And you'll have a big brass band all set to play

[Chorus]
But there'll be no brass band at the station
There'll be no smiles and no celebration
For daddy, there'll just be a black hearse waiting
And no brass band at the station

[Verse 3]
We left two years ago come next September
The letters I wrote were full of lies
For me and Daddy never hit the big time
We got our meals down in a welfare line

[Verse 4]
Daddy met up with some men who planned a robbery
They said with daddy's brains, he'd go real far
But he never got beyond the first Colt bullet
Now Daddy's in a pine box in the baggage car

[Chorus]
But there'll be no brass band at the station
There'll be no smiles and no celebration
For daddy, there'll just be a black hearse waiting
And no brass band at the station