Special Streamline-Bukka White

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[00:00.00]Special Streamline - Bukka White
[00:02.53]That's that fast Special Streamline
[00:04.78]Leavin' outta Memphis Tennessee
[00:05.65]Goin' into New Orleans
[00:06.88]She runnin' so fast the hobos don't
[00:08.16]Fool with this train They stand on the
[00:10.41]Track with their hat in their hands
[00:12.48]I had a friend girl that mornin' was
[00:13.95]Catchin' that train
[00:14.85]She got up singin' this
[00:18.60]Hey Dad I'm sorry to leave my home
[00:21.45]Mm-mm-mm
[00:23.04]Lord Lord Lord Lordy
[00:27.92]She heard that 8:30 local blowin' that
[00:29.41]Mornin' She hadn't rid
[00:30.24]The train in a good while
[00:31.36]She thought it'd have
[00:32.16]That Special Streamline
[00:33.41]She heard at 8:30 local when she is comin'
[00:34.83]To the line declared up
[00:35.80]For that Streamline
[00:36.30]Blowin' like this:
[00:44.07]She said Daddy is that my train
[00:45.34]I say I ain't keepin' up with the train time
[00:47.72]I'm tryin-a make a few dimes
[00:48.80]She dropped her head went to singin'
[00:49.96]An cryin':
[00:51.92]It's alright how you turn me down
[00:56.24]Mm-mm-mm
[00:57.57]I ain't got a dime
[01:02.44]After she called for a ticket
[01:03.41]She heard this Special Streamline
[01:04.23]Going 36 miles from Memphis Tennessee
[01:07.36]Make ya lonesome now
[01:08.33]Cause I hobo myself sometimes
[01:16.27]Man asks her Where the other train
[01:17.48]She told him she didn't know
[01:18.35]If she heard a bell she
[01:19.29]Could tell him all about it
[01:20.83]As she dropped over that hill
[01:21.81]And stopped off in the valley
[01:22.75]She heard the bell begin to toll like this:
[01:25.92]Make a sound like a church bell toll
[01:31.57]Before she got to that ten mile tunnel
[01:33.02]She blowed and throw'd on the airbrakes
[01:40.35]Airbrakes
[01:45.61]When she got to that ten mile tunnel
[01:47.19]She was gettin' close
[01:47.75]She was tippin cars on automatic switch
[01:48.95]Gettin' her water and coal on the fly
[01:50.73]You could hear her when she was strikin'
[01:52.03]That double iron like this:
[02:00.50]When she run 'cross the last one
[02:01.71]She squalled in
[02:09.00]This girl looked out an seen that train
[02:10.41]She commenced to singin' an cryin'
[02:12.99]Hey dad I don＇t wanna leave
[02:17.51]Mm-mm
[02:18.43]I believe I'll lose my mind
[02:23.20]When that train got a little closer
[02:24.41]Down to New Orleans she went around
[02:25.71]That curve you would hear her
[02:26.93]When she's blowin'like this:
[02:34.14]The people's always standin' at the station
[02:35.32]Lyin' there to see that train come in
[02:37.62]You would hear her when she squall
[02:52.15]Boy ev'rywhere but here