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Special Streamline Trk 14
Bukka (Booker T. Washington White)
Bukka - vocal & guitar
& Sam (Robert Brown) - wshbrd.
Recorded: 7th & 8th 1940 Chicago, Illinois
Album: Farm Blues, Roots RTS 33055
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That's that fast Special
Leavin' Memphis, Tennessee
into New Orleans.
She so fast the hobos don't
fool with train. They stand on the
with their hat in their hands.

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

'Hey Dad, I'm sorry to my home

Lord, Lord, Lord,

She that 8:30 local blowin' that
mornin'. She rid the train in a good while.
She thought it'd that Special Streamline.
She at 8:30 local when she is comin'
to the line, up for that Streamline
Blowin' like

(plays w/wshbrd)

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

'It's how you turn me down

I ain't got a

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

(plays & w/wshbrd)

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

(plays w/wshbrd)
a sound like 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 gettin'
She was tippin on automatic switch
Gettin' her and coal on the fly
You hear 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 looked out an seen train
She to singin' an cryin'.

'Hey, dad I don't wanna

I believe I'll lose my

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

(plays w/wshbrd)

The always standin' at the station
Lyin' there to see that train in.
You would her when she squalls.

(plays guitar - to end)

'Boy, ev'rywhere but

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