Now bensenville is a train yard over in chicago
And the bumpers y`all well that`s just the coupling between the freight cars
And calay is california that`s wah that mean

And the choke picker that someone who picks artichokes
Now you got the story y`all


Do you hear st. louis slim lost a leg
He just outside bensenville
For some damn reason he was riding on the bumpers

Act like a young man will

And now the last we spoke he was going down to memphis

Said he got himself a girl
Said going queer, riding these rails
Give himself back to the world


But me i`m going down out to calay
And i believe that we`re I fisrt met him?

So bo` lets put our coins together
And drink a bottle to st. louis slim�


Well
Awlright


I hear the looking for choke pickers out in watsonville
Your welcome to tag along
And maybe someday when i`m old and grey

I`ll write this $%&^x down in a song



But in the meantime i`m going out to calay
I believe that where I fistm met him
So bo` lets put our coins together

And drink a bottle to st. louis slim

And drink a bottle to st. louis slim


And drink a bottle to st. louis slim


And drink a bottle to st. louis` sleeve

You remember him


You remember him


But in the meantime i`m going out to calay
I believe that we`re both but him?
So bo` lets put our coins together

And drink a bottle to st. louis slim

And drink a bottle to st. louis slim


And drink a bottle to st. louis slim


And drink a bottle to st. louis slim

And drink a bottle to st. louis


One bottle to st. louis


One bottle to st. louis slim