Bonnie Parker wrote this folk poem into a bank book (The First National Bank Of Burkburnett Texas) along with 9 other poems, during her stay in the Kaufman County Jail in 1932.

01:
In the Dodge City yards of the Santa Fe
Stood a ''freight'' made up for the East
The Engineer with his coal and oil
Was grooming his iron beast

02:
While ten cars back in the murky dust
A box car door swung wide
And a hobo lifted his ''pal'' inside
To start on his last long ride

03:
A lantern swung and the freight pulled out
The Engine gathered speed
The Engineer pulled the throttle wide
And clucked to his iron steed

04:
While ten cars back in an empty box
The hobo rolled a ''pill''
And the flaring match showed his partners face
Stark white and deathly still

05:
The train wheels clicked on the coupling joints
The song for the ''ramblers'' ears
And the hobo talked to the still white ''form''