Gotta Travel On

DESCRIPTION: Singer says he's "Done laid around, done stayed around/This old town too long" and he wants to travel on. He says the police are after him, but "There's a lonesome freight at 6:08" and he'll be on it.
AUTHOR: Nominally Paul Clayton, but it's clear that the song is derived from "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff," first recorded in 1927
EARLIEST DATE: 1958 (recording, Pete Seeger)
KEYWORDS: police hobo train travel
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CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" (tune, words, structure)
SAME TUNE:
Done Played Around and Stayed Around Viet Nam Too Long (RECORDING, Chuck Rosenberg, Saul Broudy, Bull Durham, Tom Price & Robin Thomas, on InCountry)
File: RcGotTrO

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