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Thread #129207   Message #2899383
Posted By: Jim Dixon
03-May-10 - 06:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Dreamboat Struck a Snag (Louis Innis)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Dreamboat Struck a Snag (Louis Innis)
I can confirm that MY DREAMBOAT STRUCK A SNAG and OH BABE, both performed by Louie Innis & String Dusters, were issued in 1950 as a 78-rpm record, Mercury 6293.

MY DREAMBOAT STRUCK A SNAG has been reissued on the various-artists album "Hillbilly Bop, Boogie and the Honky Tonk Blues, Vol. 1: 1948-1950" Jasmine CD 3560, 2005.

There is another recording by Bob Eaton & The Lone Stars, on "Nashville, Vol. 2: Mason Dixie Boogie" and "Decca Hillbilly Volume 2"

I was able to transcribe this much from a sample:


...My sweetheart went and left me, then my troubles did begin.
My golden-laden dreamboat is gone now with the wind,
'Cause my dreamboat struck a snag an' my troubles are pourin' in.

When twenty-one, I married the sweetest thing in town.
She put right on my britches and then she slapped me down....