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   The year was 1978:  https://youtu.be/7hx4gdlfamo   
      
   Always loved this song --good music, good voice, & the lyrics take you away   
   to  that evening on that train, listening to the old guy give life advice,   
   couched  as a poker metaphor.    
      
   I wonder, though, were the characters in the song, paying passengers on that    
   train, or were they hobos sitting together in a boxcar? I think the lyrics    
   could take it either way.  I can picture hobos more than paying passengers in    
   listening to the leadup to the advice section.   
      
   The elder drinking the youngster's last swallow of whiskey -- that was cold.    
   I can't help but wonder if the elder then lifted one butt cheek & ripped one   
   that blew straw out the door. . .   
      
   Young people, listen to this song -- it's 100% bang on for what you need to    
   know if you don't live the sheltered life of the born wealthy.   
      
   I left home at 12 & wandered for ten years before settling down & working &    
   renting an actual home instead of never knowing where(or if) I'd sleep on a    
   given night.  Was roaming mostly aimlessly, but still always recalled this    
   song, I first heard on my red 1970's Radio Shack transister radio on a black    
   wrist strap.     
      
   This song did a lot to keep me sane & alive during those ten years, & served   
   me well when I discovered I was good at poker. (but not so good I could make   
   it a  career, so I knew enough to walk away instead.)   
      
   Thank you, Kenny!   
      
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6   
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