Now Bensenville is a train yard over in Chicago
And the bumpers y'all well that's just a couple in-between the freight cars
And Calay is California that's wah I mean
And the choke picker that song picks artichokes
Now you got the story y'all
Do you hear St  Louis slim lost a leg
Just outside Bensenville
For some damn reason he was riding on the bumpers
Actin like a young man who will
And now the last we spoke he was going down to Memphis
Said he got himself a girl
Said i'm gonna quit riding these here rails
Give himself back to the world
But me I'm going out to Calay
I believe that's where i first met him
So bo' lets put our coins together
And drink a bottle to St  Louis Slim
Well
Awlright
I hear the look of the choke pickers out in Watsonville
Your welcome to tag along
And maybe someday when I'm old and grey
I'll write this sh*t down in a song
But in the meantime I'm going out to Calay
I believe thats where i first 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
You remember him
You remember him
But in the meantime I'm going out to Calay
I believe thats where i first 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 Slim
And drink a bottle to St  Louis
One bottle to St  Louis
One bottle to St  Louis Slim