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Special Streamline 2: 54 Trk 14 |
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Bukka White (Booker T. Washington White) |
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Bukka White - vocal & guitar |
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& Washboard Sam (Robert Brown) - wshbrd. |
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Recorded: March 7th & 8th 1940 Chicago, Illinois |
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Album: Parchman Farm Blues, Roots RTS 33055 |
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Spoken: |
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That's that fast Special Streamline |
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Leavin' outta Memphis, Tennessee |
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Goin' into New Orleans. |
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She runnin' so fast the hobos don't |
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fool with this train. They stand on the |
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track with their hat in their hands. |
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I had a friend girl that mornin' was |
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catchin' that train. |
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She got up singin' this song: |
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Sings: |
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'Hey Dad, I'm sorry to leave my home |
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Mm-mm-mm |
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Lord, Lord, Lord, Lordy' |
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Spoken: |
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She heard that 8: 30 local blowin' that |
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mornin'. She hadn't rid the train in a good while. |
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She thought it'd have that Special Streamline. |
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She heard at 8: 30 local when she is comin' |
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to the line, declared up for that Streamline |
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Blowin' like this: |
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(plays guitar w/wshbrd) |
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She said, 'Daddy, is that my train?' |
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I say, I ain't keepin' up with the train time |
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I'm tryin-a make a few dimes.' |
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She dropped her head went to singin' |
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an cryin': |
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Sings: |
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'It's alright how you turn me down |
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Mm-mm-mm |
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I ain't got a dime |
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Spoken: |
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After she called for a ticket |
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She heard this Special Streamline |
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going 36 miles from Memphis, Tennessee. |
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Make ya lonesome now |
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Cause I hobo myself, sometimes. |
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(plays guitar & w/wshbrd) |
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Man asks her, 'Where the other train?' |
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She told him she didn't know |
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If she heard a bell she could tell him all about it. |
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As she dropped over that hill |
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And stopped off in the valley |
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She heard the bell begin to toll like this: |
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(plays guitar w/wshbrd) |
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'Make a sound like a church bell toll'. |
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Before she got to that ten mile tunnel |
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She blowed and throw'd on the airbrakes. |
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(plays guitar & w/wshbrd) |
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Airbrakes! |
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When she got to that ten mile tunnel |
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She was gettin' close |
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She was tippin cars on automatic switch |
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Gettin' her water and coal on the fly |
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You could hear her when she was strikin' |
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that double iron like this: |
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(plays guitar w/wshbrd) |
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When she run 'cross the last one |
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She squalled in. |
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(plays guitar w/wshbrd) |
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This girl looked out an seen that train |
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She commenced to singin' an cryin'. |
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Sings: |
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'Hey, dad I don't wanna leave' |
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Mm-mm |
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I believe I'll lose my mind' |
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When that train got a little closer |
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down to New Orleans, she went around |
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that curve, you would hear her |
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when she's blowin' like this: |
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(plays guitar w/wshbrd) |
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The people's always standin' at the station |
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Lyin' there to see that train come in. |
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You would hear her when she squalls. |
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(plays guitar w/wshbrd - to end) |
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Spoken: |
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'Boy, ev'rywhere but here' |
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