Special Streamline-Bukka White

[ti:Special Streamline] [ar:Bukka White] [al:Fixin' To Die] [by:] [offset:0] [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 [00:22.40] [00:23.04]Lord Lord Lord Lordy [00:25.21] [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 [00:32.68] [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: [00:38.12] [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': [00:50.96] [00:51.92]It's alright how you turn me down [00:55.53] [00:56.24]Mm-mm-mm [00:56.79] [00:57.57]I ain't got a dime [01:00.10] [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 [01:06.49] [01:07.36]Make ya lonesome now [01:08.33]Cause I hobo myself sometimes [01:09.73] [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: [01:24.63] [01:25.92]Make a sound like a church bell toll [01:27.39] [01:31.57]Before she got to that ten mile tunnel [01:33.02]She blowed and throw'd on the airbrakes [01:36.35] [01:40.35]Airbrakes [01:40.51] [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: [01:53.11] [02:00.50]When she run 'cross the last one [02:01.71]She squalled in [02:02.92] [02:09.00]This girl looked out an seen that train [02:10.41]She commenced to singin' an cryin' [02:11.97] [02:12.99]Hey dad I don＇t wanna leave [02:16.82] [02:17.51]Mm-mm [02:18.43]I believe I'll lose my mind [02:21.34] [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: [02:28.02] [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 [02:38.67] [02:52.15]Boy ev'rywhere but here