Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Special Stream Line, artist - Bukka White.
Date of issue: 17.07.2013
Song language: English
Special Stream Line |
Special Streamline 2:54 Trk 14 |
Bukka White (Booker T. Washington White) |
Bukka White — vocal & guitar |
& Washboard Sam (Robert Brown) — wshbrd |
Recorded: March 7th & 8th 1940 Chicago, Illinois |
Album: Parchman Farm Blues, Roots RTS 33 055 |
Spoken: |
That’s that fast Special Streamline |
Leavin' outta Memphis, Tennessee |
Goin' into New Orleans |
She runnin' so fast the hobos don’t |
Fool with this train. |
They stand on the |
Track with their hat in their hands |
I had a friend girl that mornin' was |
Catchin' that train |
She got up singin' this song: |
Sings: |
'Hey Dad, I’m sorry to leave my home |
Mm-mm-mm |
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lordy' |
Spoken: |
She heard that 8:30 local blowin' that |
Mornin'. |
She hadn’t rid the train in a good while |
She thought it’d have that Special Streamline |
She heard at 8:30 local when she is comin' |
To the line, declared up for that Streamline |
Blowin' like this: |
(plays guitar w/wshbrd) |
She said, 'Daddy, is that my train?' |
I say, I ain’t keepin' up with the train time |
I’m tryin-a make a few dimes.' |
She dropped her head went to singin' |
An cryin': |
Sings: |
'It's alright how you turn me down |
Mm-mm-mm |
I ain’t got a dime |
Spoken: |
After she called for a ticket |
She heard this Special Streamline |
Going 36 miles from Memphis, Tennessee |
Make ya lonesome now |
Cause I hobo myself, sometimes |
(plays guitar & w/wshbrd) |
Man asks her, 'Where the other train?' |
She told him she didn’t know |
If she heard a bell she could tell him all about it |
As she dropped over that hill |
And stopped off in the valley |
She heard the bell begin to toll like this: |
(plays guitar w/wshbrd) |
'Make a sound like a church bell toll' |
Before she got to that ten mile tunnel |
She blowed and throw’d on the airbrakes |
(plays guitar & w/wshbrd) |
Airbrakes! |
When she got to that ten mile tunnel |
She was gettin' close |
She was tippin cars on automatic switch |
Gettin' her water and coal on the fly |
You could hear her when she was strikin' |
That double iron like this: |
(plays guitar w/wshbrd) |
When she run 'cross the last one |
She squalled in |
(plays guitar w/wshbrd) |
This girl looked out an seen that train |
She commenced to singin' an cryin' |
Sings: |
'Hey, dad I don’t wanna leave' |
Mm-mm |
I believe I’ll lose my mind' |
When that train got a little closer |
Down to New Orleans, she went around |
That curve, you would hear her |
When she’s blowin' like this: |
(plays guitar w/wshbrd) |
The people’s always standin' at the station |
Lyin' there to see that train come in |
You would hear her when she squalls |
(plays guitar w/wshbrd — to end) |
Spoken: |
'Boy, ev’rywhere but here' |