Andy Irvine - https://andyirvinelyrics.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/never-tire-of-the-road/ NEVER TIRE OF THE ROAD was just a small-town country boy when I left that dusty town Route 66 to the westward and hopped an old freight down California, here I come By the side-door Pullman and the sunburnt thumb And they called us Okies, lowdown bums And the police on us frowned (Chorus) Never tire of the road Never tire of the rolling wheel Never tire of the ways of the world Way out yonder is a-calling me And the dark road leads me onwards And the highway that's my code And the lonesome voice that I heard in my head said Never tire of the road California to the New York Island, me and my guitar And we played in many a hobo jungle, many a skid-row bar Standing out in the wind and the rain That lonesome whistle is a sweet refrain When you are waiting for some old freight train That carries an empty car Shipped on board a Liberty ship to sail the ocean blue We were carrying guns, TNT, D-Day soldiers too All of the men on board agreed With Cisco, Jimmy Longhi and me And our song rang out across the sea You fascists bound to lose All of you fascists bound to lose All of you fascists bound to lose I said, all you fascists bound to lose You're bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose Don't let them ever fool you or take you by surprise That dirty smell of the politician and the man with the greed in his eyes One big union that's our plan And the IWW's your only man The flames of discontent we'll fan For the cause that never dies Alternative Last Verse: Don't let them ever fool you or take you by surprise That dirty smell of the politician and the man with the greed in his eyes Woody might be dead & gone But the words he wrote they still live on May his spirit ever shine upon The cause that never dies By Andy Irvine "Never Tire of the Road", Irvine's tribute to his lifelong hero, Woody Guthrie. In this updated version, Irvine included the chorus from a song Guthrie recorded in March 1944: "You Fascists Are Bound to Lose". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRg6X1sHBt4
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