Forty More Miles to Go / Rouster’s Chant
[MEN & WOMEN]
Lord ain't I prayed
Loud enough to hear?
How long, how long
Feet go on a-walkin'
'Til that Promised Land be near?
Hammer weighin' down my back
Sorrow weighin' down my soul
Forty more miles on the railroad track
Always forty more miles to go
[MAN]
How many miles my two feet countin'?
[ROUSTER, spoken]
Covington and Louisville
[MAN]
How many tracks my two hands lay?
[ROUSTER, spoken]
Owensboro
[MAN]
How many bridges?
How many tunnels?
[ROUSTER, spoken]
Evansville, Indiana
[MAN]
'Fore my blood run cold
[ROUSTER, spoken]
Paducah
[MAN]
And my hair
[ROUSTER, spoken]
Kentucky
[MAN]
Turn gray?
[ROUSTER, spoken]
Cairo, Illinois