Special Stream Line-Bukka White

[ti:Special Stream Line] [ar:Bukka White] [al:Good Gin Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Special Stream Line - Bukka White [00:01.97]That's that fast Special Streamline [00:03.81]Leavin' outta Memphis Tennessee [00:05.06]Goin' into New Orleans [00:06.40]She runnin' so fast the hobos don't [00:08.02]Fool with this train They stand on the [00:09.89]Track with their hat their hands [00:10.95] [00:11.93]I had a friend girl that mornin' was [00:13.36]Catchin' that train [00:13.99]She got up singin' this on [00:15.12] [00:16.86]Hey Dad I'm sorry to leave my home [00:20.78]Mm-mm-mm [00:22.64]Lord Lord Lord Lordy [00:26.63] [00:27.35]She heard that 8:30 local blowin' that [00:28.90]Mornin' She hadn't rid [00:29.73]The train in a good while [00:30.61]She thought it'd have [00:31.30]That Special Streamline [00:32.21] [00:32.76]She heard at 8:30 local [00:33.79]When she is comin' [00:34.40]To the line declared up [00:35.43]For that Streamline [00:36.14]Blowin' like this: [00:36.98] [00:43.08]She said Daddy is that my train [00:44.58]I say keepin' up with the train time [00:46.41]I'm tryin-a make a few dimes [00:47.98]She dropped her head went to singin' [00:49.19]An cryin': [00:49.71] [00:52.56]It's alright how you turn me down [00:54.93] [00:55.48]Mm-mm-mm [00:56.92]I ain't got a dime [01:01.46]After she called for a ticket [01:02.74]She heard this Special Streamline [01:04.15]Going 36 miles from Memphis Tennessee [01:06.42]Make ya lonesome now [01:07.35]Cause I hobo myself sometimes [01:09.30] [01:15.31]Man asks her Where the other train [01:16.44]She told him she didn't know [01:17.38]If she heard a bell she [01:18.30]Could tell him all about it [01:19.44]As she dropped over that hill [01:20.55]And stopped off in the valley [01:21.61]She heard the bell begin to toll like this: [01:23.39] [01:24.73]Make a sound like a church bell toll [01:26.56] [01:30.47]Before she got to that ten mile tunnel [01:31.86]She blowed and throw'd on the airbrakes [01:33.70] [01:39.07]Airbrakes [01:39.68] [01:43.33]When she got to that ten mile tunnel [01:44.89]She was gettin' close [01:45.70]She was tippin cars on automatic switch [01:47.31]Gettin' her water and coal on the fly [01:49.05]You could hear her when she was strikin' [01:50.21]That double iron like this: [01:51.43] [01:59.05]When she run 'cross the last one [02:00.29]She squalled in [02:01.28] [02:07.50]This girl looked out an seen that train [02:08.98]She commenced to singin' an cryin' [02:10.29] [02:11.60]Hey dad I don't wanna leave [02:15.45]Mm-mm [02:16.85]I believe I'll lose my mind [02:21.43]That train got a little closer [02:22.47]Down to New Orleans she went around [02:23.79]That curve you would hear her [02:24.64]When she's blowin' like this: [02:25.85] [02:32.48]People's always standin' at the station [02:33.95]Lyin' there to see that train come in [02:35.72]You would hear her when she squall