Long Way from Texas

I boarded the last train to Maine, a dollar in my hand Headed up North to see my baby, leaving the Rio Grande Freeport's where he calls home, and where I'll make mine Engineer won't you pour that coal, he's meeting me there for nine It's a long way from Texas, for a girl like me Mom gave up trying to make me stay, she just thinks I'm crazy She says the winter's are long, and that I'll freeze at night But if he's waiting for me at the station, I'll be alright I stepped down to the platform, and not much met my eye Main Street was only a couple of buildings and nothing but the bluest sky I thought back to my hometown, the family I left behind But it was love that brought me this far, the truest that I'd ever find It's a long way from Texas, for a girl like me Mom gave up trying to make me stay, she just thinks I'm crazy She says the winter's are long, and that I'll freeze at night But if he's waiting for me at the station, I'll be alright Now we've got two kids of our own, and one more on the way It's crazy to think of the life I've lived, since I decided to stay But Mom was right about one thing, it's much warmer back home But I'm happy where I am with a family to call my own It's a long way from Texas, for a girl like me Mom gave up trying to make me stay, she just thinks I'm crazy She says the winter's are long, and that I'll freeze at night But if he's waiting for me at the station, I'll be alright But if he's waiting for me at the station, I'll be alright