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Thread #85590   Message #1683516
Posted By: Joe Offer
02-Mar-06 - 04:40 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Danville Girl
Subject: ADD Version: Ten Thousand Miles from Home
I get a kick out of this one - it's obviously mixed with Bigler's Crew and "Knickerbocker Line."

Ten Thousand Miles from Home

Chorus:
Watch her and catch her
And jump her juberju,
Release the brakes and let her go,
The bums will ride her through.

Chorus:
Don't stop for water,
Just catch it on the fly,
Will I get Holy Moses,
On the Pennsylvania line!

Get out, get out, you dirty bum,
You're on the Nashville train,
Ten thousand miles away from home,
Riding an old freight train.
or
Ten thousand miles away from home
My heart was filled with pain.

as sung by a seventy-one-year-old ex-jailbird, a one-legged, "retired" Negro in New Orleans

from Lomax & Lomax, American Ballads and Folk Songs, 1934 - page 29