Special Streamline (Album Version)

Special Streamline (Album Version) - Bukka White

That's that fast Special Streamline

Leavin' outta Memphis Tennessee

Goin' into New Orleans

She runnin' so fast the hobos don't

Fool with this train They stand on the

Track with their hat in their hands

I had a friend girl that mornin' was

Catchin' that train

She got up singin' this

Hey Dad I'm sorry to leave my home

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Lord Lord Lord Lordy

She heard that 8:30 local blowin' that

Mornin' She hadn't rid

The train in a good while

She thought it'd have

That Special Streamline

She heard at 8:30 local when she is comin'

To the line declared up

For that Streamline

Blowin' like this:

She said Daddy is that my train

I say I ain't keepin' up with the train time

I'm tryin-a make a few dimes

She dropped her head went to singin'

An cryin':

It's alright how you turn me down

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I ain't got a dime

After she called for a ticket

She heard this Special Streamline

Going 36 miles from Memphis Tennessee

Make ya lonesome now

Cause I hobo myself sometimes

Man asks her Where the other train

She told him she didn't know

If she heard a bell she

Could tell him all about it

As she dropped over that hill

And stopped off in the valley

She heard the bell begin to toll like this:

Make a sound like a church bell toll

Before she got to that ten mile tunnel

She blowed and throw'd on the airbrakes

Airbrakes

When she got to that ten mile tunnel

She was gettin' close

She was tippin cars on automatic switch

Gettin' her water and coal on the fly

You could hear her when she was strikin'

That double iron like this:

When she run 'cross the last one

She squalled in

This girl looked out an seen that train

She commenced to singin' an cryin'

Hey dad I don＇t wanna leave

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I believe I'll lose my mind

When that train got a little closer

Down to New Orleans she went around

That curve you would hear her

When she's blowin'like this:

The people's always standin' at the station

Lyin' there to see that train come in

You would hear her when she squall

Boy ev'rywhere but here