The New 'Frisco Train-Bukka White

[00:01.96]That's that fast special streamline leaving outta memphis [00:04.63]Tennessee going into New Orleans [00:06.59]She running so fast the hobos don't fool with this train [00:09.16]They stand on the track with their hat in their hands [00:12.01]I had a friend girl that morning was catching that train [00:13.98]She got up singing this song [00:16.72]Hey dad I'm sorry to leave my home [00:20.79]Mm mm mm [00:22.48]Lord lord lord lordy [00:27.44]She heard that eight o'clock thirty local blowing that morning [00:29.18]She hadn't rid the train in a good while [00:31.11]She thought it'd have that special streamline [00:32.87]She heard at eight o'clock thirty local when she's coming to the line [00:34.78]Declared up for that streamline blowing like this [00:43.18]She said daddy is that my train [00:45.40]I say I ain't keeping up with the train time [00:48.01]I'm tryin a make a few dimes [00:48.03]She dropped her head went to singing an crying [00:51.26]It's alright how you turn me down [00:55.16]Mm mm mm [00:56.68]I ain't got a dime [01:01.43]After she called for a ticket [01:02.65]She heard this special streamline going thirty three miles from [01:05.12]Tennessee make ya lonesome now [01:07.27]Cause I hobo myself sometimes [01:09.78] [01:15.19]Man asks her where the other train [01:16.50]She told him she didn't know [01:17.49]If she heard a bell she could tell him all about it [01:19.33]As she dropped over that hill [01:20.55]And stopped off in the valley [01:21.57]She heard the bell begin to toll like this [01:24.52]Make a sound like a church bell toll [01:30.18]Before she got to that ten mile tunnel [01:31.69]She blowed and throw'd on the airbrakes [01:38.89]Airbrakes [01:43.32]When she got to that ten mile tunnel [01:44.47]She was getting close [01:45.71]She was tippin cars on automatic switch [01:47.41]Getting her water and coal on the fly [01:48.85]You could hear her when she was striking that double iron like this [01:52.07] [01:58.85]When she run cross the last one [01:59.94]She squalled in [02:02.04] [02:07.21]This girl looked out an seen that train [02:08.49]She commenced to singing an crying [02:11.09]Hey dad I don't wanna leave [02:14.94]Mm mm [02:16.57]I believe I'll lose my mind [02:21.15]When that train got a little closer down to New Orleans [02:23.09]She went around that curve [02:24.33]You would hear her when she's blowing like this [02:25.88] [02:32.17]The people's always standing at the station [02:33.65]Lying there to see that train come in [02:35.43]You would hear her when she squalls [02:37.43]