Luyện nghe bài hát Special Streamline

Special 2:54 Trk 14
Bukka (Booker T. Washington White)
Bukka White - vocal &
& Sam (Robert Brown) - wshbrd.
Recorded: 7th & 8th 1940 Chicago, Illinois
Album: Parchman Blues, Roots RTS 33055
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That's that fast Special
outta Memphis, Tennessee
Goin' New Orleans.
She runnin' so fast the hobos
fool this train. They stand on the
with their hat in their hands.

I had a friend girl that was
that train.
She got up singin' this

'Hey Dad, I'm sorry to leave my

Lord, Lord, Lord,

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

(plays w/wshbrd)

She said, 'Daddy, is that my
I say, I keepin' up with the train time
I'm make a few dimes.'
She her head went to singin'
an

'It's alright how you turn me

I got a dime

After she called for a
She heard this Special
going 36 miles Memphis, Tennessee.
Make ya now
Cause I myself, sometimes.

(plays & w/wshbrd)

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

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

she got to that 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 cars on automatic switch
Gettin' her and coal on the fly
You could her when she was strikin'
that double iron like

(plays w/wshbrd)

she run 'cross the last one
She in.

(plays w/wshbrd)

This girl out an seen that train
She commenced to an cryin'.

'Hey, dad I don't wanna

I believe I'll my mind'

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

(plays w/wshbrd)

The people's standin' at the station
Lyin' there to see that come in.
You would hear her she squalls.

(plays w/wshbrd - to end)

'Boy, but here'

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