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Thread #115222 Message #2464225
Posted By: Roberto
13-Oct-08 - 06:07 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Fiddlin John Carson's Midnight Special
Subject: Lyr Req: Fiddlin John Carson's Midnight Special
Please, help me get the text of The Midnight Special as sung by Fiddlin John Carson. Its title is Stockade Blues. Here is what I can get out of the first two stanzas:
When you go to Atlanta, you'd better walk right Don't drink no liquor, nor have no fight For the police will get you, he'll carry you down You'll meet Mister Calloway, then you're Stockade blound
Wake up in the morning, ere the bell … ding You can look on the table, see the same old thing … cold coffee, as bitter as gall If you don't like that, boy, you don't get none at all