Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Steamboat Whistle Blues, artist - John Hartford. Album song Aereo-Plain, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 28.08.2011
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
Steamboat Whistle Blues |
Well I started out to be a towboat man |
But I never got the hang of a ratchet bar |
I was a -growin up a-deckin in the |
Illinois trade with coal dust in my ear |
I got stuck in the ice on Christmas Eve |
And I froze my ass it’s true |
Just a shiv’rin and a-shakin with a Down South case of them |
Steamboat whistle blues |
Oh Captain Way I’m sorry, my hat is off to you |
You’ve been a-hanging out by the old cook stove |
With the steamboat whistle blues |
Well way up North I called your phone |
But I didn’t get no one to answer |
So I opened up the window and I smoked a little bit |
And I watched the cars go by |
I’m gonna hunt you up and ask you |
If you found out anything new |
Or are you a-hangin to the best you had |
With the steamboat whistle blues |
I’ve been right here since nine o’clock |
And believe you me that’s true |
Just a-lookin at the water ways churning with the steamboat whistle blues |
Well the city’s growing up where it looks all square |
Like a crossword puzzle on the landscape |
It looks like an electric shaver now |
Where the courthouse used to be |
The grass is all synthetic |
And we don’t know for sure about the food |
The only thing we know for sure is them steamboat whistle blues |
I’d sit and watch my TV if I thought I could trust the news |
About the only thing I trust these days |
Is them steamboat whistle blues |
Well «far out» Johnny well I heard him say |
As he stretched out back on the water bed |
Bluegrass music is a thing of the past |
And the same for rock and roll |
And I loaned him two or three dollars |
And he gave me the latest news |
And he left me here with a Rolling Stone |
And the steamboat whistle blues |
I’ll tear off down the river some day before I’m through |
Then come back here and see it out |
With the steamboat whistle blues |