Train I Ride

DESCRIPTION: "Train I ride 16 coaches long, ... carried my babe from home." "Love my baby tell the world I do ... she loves you too." "mama meat shakes on your bones ... a poor man's dollar gone." "1 and 1 is 2, 2 and 2 is 4, You don't want me but you can't let me go"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1966 (USMississippi01)
KEYWORDS: love infidelity sex rejection parting train nonballad derivative
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Lovey Williams, "Train I Ride" (on USMississippi01)
NOTES [80 words]: From David Evans's liner notes to USMississippi01: "Lovey Williams adds traditional verses to 'Train I Ride,' itself based on a more or less traditional blues recorded by Junior Parker in 1953." Little Junior's (Parker) Blue Flames's "Mystery Train" (Sun 192, 1953) is the Evans reference that shares its first verse with Lovey Williams's track, as does Elvis Presley's "Mystery Train" (Sun 223, 1955). Lovey Williams's song seems all floating verse with the third line twisted. - BS
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File: RcTraIRi

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