St. Louis Slim

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 Cali is California that's what 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 he going quit, riding these here rails

Give himself back to the world

But me, I'm going down to Cali

And I believe that's where I first met him

So, boy, let's put our coins together

And drink a bottle to St. Louis Slim

Well

Alright

I hear they're 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 day down in a song

But in the meantime, I'm going down to Cali

I believe that's where I first met him

So, boy, let's 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

You remember him?

You remember him?

Yeah, in the meantime, I'm going down to Cali

I believe that's where I first met him

So, boy, let's put our coin together

Drink a bottle to St. Louis Slim

Drink one bottle to St. Louis Slim

Drink one  bottle to St. Louis Slim

Drink one bottle to St. Louis Slim (One more time, ay)

Drink one bottle to St. Louis

One bottle to St. Louis

One bottle to St. Louis Slim

Drink one bottle to St. Louis Slim

Drink one  bottle to St. Louis Slim

Drink one  bottle to St. Louis Slim