Re: Jackson Stomp
Originally Posted by
ThunderWalk
I've been looking for the lyrics to "Jackson Stomp". Can anyone point me to a link?
I was just going through my blues song lyrics and ran across this, which appears to be downloaded from the net:
That Lonesome Train Took My Baby Away
(Charlie McCoy)
Woke up this morning, found something wrong.
My lovin' babe had caught that train and gone.
Now, won't you starch my jumper, iron my overalls
I'm gonna ride that train that they call the Cannonball.
Mister Depot Agent, close your depot down
The woman I'm lovin' she's gonna blow this town
Now that mean old fireman, that cruel old engineer
Gon' take my baby and leave me lonesome here.
(instrumental break)
It ain't no tellin' what that train won't do
It'll take your baby'n run right over you
Now, that engineer man ought be 'shamed of himself,
Take women from their husbands, babies from their mother's breast.
I walked down the track, where the stars re fuse to shine,
Look like every minute, I was going to lose my mind,
Now my knees was weak, my footsteps was all I heard,
Look like every minute, I was steppn'in another world.
(instrumental break)
Mister Depot Agent, close your depot down
The girl I'm loving', she's gonna blow this town
Now that mean old fireman, cruel old engineer
Gon' take my baby, and leave me lonesome here.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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