Special Streamline-Bukka White/Washboard Sam

[ti:Special Steam Line] [ar:Bukka White] [al:Blues from the Vocalion Vaults] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Special Steam Line - Bukka White [00:01.77]Written by：White [00:03.55]That's that fast Special Streamline [00:05.27]Leavin' outta Memphis Tennessee [00:06.56]Goin' into New Orleans [00:07.72]She runnin' so fast the hobos don't [00:09.62]Fool with this train they stand on the [00:11.42]Track with their hat in their hands [00:12.47] [00:13.70]I had a friend girl that mornin' was [00:14.90]Catchin' that train [00:15.50]She got up singin' this song [00:16.44] [00:18.48]Hey dad I'm sorry to leave my home [00:22.77] [00:24.38]Lord Lord Lord Lordy [00:28.40] [00:29.28]She heard that 830 local blowin' that [00:30.62]Mornin' She hadn't rid [00:31.53]The train in a good while she thought it'd have [00:33.20]That Special Streamline [00:34.12] [00:34.76]She heard at 830 local when she is comin' [00:36.19]To the line declared up [00:37.30]For that Streamline [00:38.19]Blowin' like this [00:38.67] [00:45.30]She said daddy is that my train [00:46.46]I say I ain't keepin' up with the train time [00:48.51]I'm tryin a make a few dimes [00:49.57] [00:50.21]She dropped her head went to singin' [00:51.37]An cryin' [00:51.66] [00:53.15]It's alright how you turn me down [00:57.02] [00:58.95]I ain't got a dime [01:02.93] [01:03.78]After she called for a ticket [01:04.75]She heard this Special Streamline [01:06.12]Going 36 miles from Memphis Tennessee [01:08.67]Make ya lonesome now [01:09.48]'Cause I hobo myself sometimes [01:11.03] [01:17.69]Man asks her Where the other train [01:18.74]She told him she didn't know if she heard a bell [01:20.32]She could tell him all about it [01:21.46]As she dropped over that hill [01:22.96]And stopped off in the valley [01:24.04]She heard the bell begin to toll like this [01:25.58] [01:27.25]Make a sound like a church bell toll [01:28.82] [01:32.90]Before she got to that ten mile tunnel [01:34.20]She blowed and throw'd on the airbrakes [01:35.98] [01:41.62]Airbrakes [01:42.05] [01:46.14]When she got to that ten mile tunnel [01:47.17]She was gettin' close [01:48.16]She was tippin cars on automatic switch [01:49.62]Gettin' her water and coal on the fly [01:51.39]You could hear her when she was strikin' [01:52.67]That double iron like this [01:53.71] [02:01.90]When she run 'cross the last one [02:03.17]She squalled in [02:03.92] [02:10.40]This girl looked out an seen that train [02:11.62]She commenced to singin' an cryin' [02:12.95] [02:14.41]Hey dad I don't wanna leave [02:18.19] [02:19.80]I believe I'll lose my mind [02:23.15] [02:24.06]When that train got a little closer [02:25.29]Down to New Orleans she went around [02:26.66]That curve you would hear her [02:27.67]When she's blowin'like this [02:28.63] [02:35.10]The people's always standin' at the station [02:36.73]Lyin' there to see that train come in [02:38.10] [02:38.62]You would hear her when she squall