
Date of issue: 31.12.2009
Record label: Capitol Records Nashville
Song language: English
Narration #4 (Same Train, A Different Time) |
The hobo is a reocurring subject in the Jimmie Rodgers songs |
Hoboing was an accepted form of travel for the migrant worker |
Or for the unemployed who simply wanted a change of weather |
And during the period of Jimmie’s greatest popularity |
You could set your watch by the highbawl of any train |
Hoboing was an inexpensive almost sure way of getting from one place to |
another and during the peak of the depression it was not unusual to see |
Oh half a hundred bo’s jump from a train just as it came into the outskirts |
of a city. |
They’d jump off a soon as they could so as to ditch the trainbulls |
of the oncoming yard. |
But many quite respectable men find it convenient to |
hop trains also and many of them died identified only as a railroad bum |
And I would imagine that hobo Bill was one of them… |
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Mama Tried | 2012 |
Always Wanting You | 2008 |
I'm A White Boy ft. The Strangers | 1976 |
If We Make It Through December | 2008 |
I'm Leavin' Now ft. Merle Haggard | 1999 |
I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink | 1995 |
Some Other World ft. Merle Haggard, Ray Price | 2006 |
Pancho & Lefty ft. Merle Haggard | 1995 |
Someday We'll Look Back | 2005 |
The Coming And The Going Of The Trains ft. The Strangers | 1975 |
I'll Leave the Bottle On the Bar | 2010 |
Skid Row | 2010 |
Gone Crazy | 1998 |
Teach Me To Forget | 2005 |
I'm Free ft. The Strangers | 2005 |
Basin Street Blues ft. Preservation Hall Jazz Band | 2010 |
Walk a Mile in My Shoes | 2012 |
Don't Get Married | 1998 |
She Thinks I Still Care | 2006 |