We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Last Train Out of Old St. Louis

from Blood in the Dirt by Verso Folio

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

4.

On the walk back from a particularly hard day down there in the mountain, I bought a paper when I glanced at a headline: George Loom Finds Gold!

I could hardly read the damn thing, my hands shook so hard. They’re still shaking, but at least I can write.

Seems my “friend” George Loom spun a fable and I fell for it. Not long after Jackson and I left, he hopped aboard a clipper and made his way to California, and somehow got his hands on an ore vein nobody had found. He probably bought the same ticket I would have.

There’s a train coming out from St. Louis. The company is shipping in new workers thinking our troupe is too old or just lazy. They don’t believe when we tell them the coal is running out just like the gold did before it.

My gold is still under there, though. I can feel it.

Still, part of me wants to take what we have, buy two tickets for that train’s return trip, and head back to where we started from. But what’s the good in that? There’s nothing in Virginia for us now, and at least here we have hope.

Would that I could have afforded to take the rail out here; we wouldn’t have needed the horses we lost anyway, and maybe Jackson wouldn’t be so quiet now.

Except for when he’s talking about that farm girl. Then I can’t make him stop.

credits

from Blood in the Dirt, released December 9, 2022

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Verso Folio image

Verso Folio Kansas City, Missouri

digital music for digital folks.

instrumental alt-rock soundscapes. telling stories through vibe and emotion. (and the words I post on each album's page.)

i'm trying to learn music theory and production. these are the projects i make along the way. ... more

contact / help

Contact Verso Folio

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Verso Folio, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now