Train Done Left Me

DESCRIPTION: "The train's done left me, and the jitney bus has gone (x2), Lord... I won't be here long." The singer is leaving and will not be back. His woman is "further down the road" and has another man. The train has fourteen coaches
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (recording, Carolina Tar Heels)
KEYWORDS: love separation train travel floatingverses
FOUND IN: US
Roud #22490
RECORDINGS:
Carolina Tar Heels [Clarence Ashley, Garley Foster, Dock Walsh], "Train Done Left Me" (1929; on Ashley04)
File: RcTDLM

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