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Waiting for a Train
Mississippi John Hurt
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[Spoken Intro: (Bob Dylan) & (John Lee Hooker)
Tell you what you might do... that, uh, play the
Uh, "Let the Mermaid Flirt With Me" except use
The old original words, sing "Waiting for a Train"
Sing "Waiting for a Train"?
You remember most of that, don't you?
But I can't yodel. I can't do that
I'm not sure I'd wanna hear you
You're right. Be worse than breaking up those soda cracks. In other
Words, it's... that it'd be the mad
Way, but in old reasonable way, then
Right
All around are water tanks
Leaking in the rain
A thousand miles away from home
Waiting for a train
I walked up to the brakeman
I asked for a line of talk
He says, "If you've got money
I will see that you don't walk"
I haven't got a nickel
Not a penny can I show
"Get off, get off, you railroad bum"
He slammed the boxcar door
Put me off in Texas
Place I dearly love
Wide open spaces all around me
Moon and stars up above
There's no one seem to care me
Either lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco
I'm going back to Dixieland
My pocketbook is empty
And my heart is full of pain
A thousand miles away from home
Waiting for a train
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