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 calay is california that's wah 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 going queer, riding these rails Give himself back to the world But me i'm going down out to calay And i believe that we're I fisrt met him? So bo' lets put our coins together And drink a bottle to st. louis slim? Well Awlright I hear the 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 xxxx down in a song But in the meantime i'm going out to calay I believe that where I fistm met him So bo' lets 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 And drink a bottle to st. louis' sleeve You remember him You remember him But in the meantime i'm going out to calay I believe that we're both but him? So bo' lets 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 And drink a bottle to st. louis slim And drink a bottle to st. louis One bottle to st. louis One bottle to st. louis slim