That Same Old Dotted Line - Hank Snow

It’s a friendly lookin' freight train that’s a pullin' down the track

And once again another town is a lookin' at my back

And another tender woman cries beggin' me to stay

That’s a game I’m never gonna play

She calls it love but it’s that same ole dotted line

I know the roll of a box car and the smell of Georgia pine

The hunger of a prison cell when a woman’s on your mind

And the way this world can treat you cold as if you don’t belong

Oh high and mighty 'll tell you that you’re wrong wrong

Just because you do not sign that same ole dotted line

They say someday I’ll have to pay the bill

But if it’s on a dotted line I swear I never will

Now a man can live on easy street if he’ll just close his eyes

Learn the art of movin' up and study compromise

Well half a truth is still a lie no matter how it’s told

But you can be a member of the fold

All you gotta do is sign that same ole dotted line

Oh the preachers and the teachers and the mothers of this land

They’d like to bend and shape you and help you be a man

Makin' plans and growin' roots and laying money back

And you may never live before you die

Once they’ve got your name upon that same ole dotted line

They say someday I’ll have to pay the bill

But if it’s on a dotted line I swear I never will

So wave to me in passing and if you think I’m wrong

Don’t try to sell me anything I only need a song

And let me have the feel of life the laughter and the tears

And when I die I’ll know that I was here

Just don’t think I’m gonna sign that same ole dotted line

Just don’t think I’m gonna sign that same ole dotted line