Luyện nghe bài hát Special Streamline

Special 2:54 Trk 14
White (Booker T. Washington White)
Bukka White - & guitar
& Sam (Robert Brown) - wshbrd.
Recorded: March 7th & 8th 1940 Chicago,
Album: Parchman Farm Blues, Roots RTS
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That's that fast Special
outta Memphis, Tennessee
Goin' New Orleans.
She so fast the hobos don't
with this train. They stand on the
track with hat in their hands.

I had a friend girl that was
that train.
She got up this song:

'Hey Dad, I'm sorry to my home

Lord, Lord, Lord,

She heard 8:30 local blowin' that
mornin'. She hadn't rid the in a good while.
She thought it'd that Special Streamline.
She at 8:30 local when she is comin'
to the line, declared up for Streamline
Blowin' like

(plays w/wshbrd)

She said, 'Daddy, is my train?'
I say, I ain't up with the train time
I'm make a few dimes.'
She her head went to singin'
an

'It's how you turn me down

I got a dime

After she called for a
She this Special Streamline
going 36 from Memphis, Tennessee.
ya lonesome now
Cause I myself, sometimes.

(plays & w/wshbrd)

Man her, 'Where the other train?'
She told him she didn't
If she a bell she could tell him all about it.
As she over that hill
And stopped off in the
She heard the bell begin to toll like

(plays w/wshbrd)
'Make a sound a church bell toll'.

Before she got to ten mile tunnel
She blowed and on the airbrakes.

(plays & w/wshbrd)

Airbrakes!

When she got to that ten mile
She was close
She was tippin on automatic switch
Gettin' her and coal on the fly
You could hear her she was strikin'
that double like this:

(plays w/wshbrd)

she run 'cross the last one
She in.

(plays w/wshbrd)

This girl looked out an that train
She to singin' an cryin'.

'Hey, dad I don't wanna

I believe I'll lose my

When that train got a little
to New Orleans, she went around
that curve, you hear her
when she's blowin' this:

(plays w/wshbrd)

The people's always at the station
there to see that train come in.
You would her when she squalls.

(plays guitar - to end)

'Boy, ev'rywhere but

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