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21 Aug 98 - 07:51 AM (#35511) Subject: Lyr Add: WAITING FOR A TRAIN (Jimmie Rodgers) From: Ralph Butts WAITING FOR A TRAIN (J. Rodgers) As recorded by Jimmie Rodgers, 1928. (Victor V-40014-B)
All around the water tank
I walked up to a brakeman
I haven't got a nickel
He put me off in Texas
Nobody seems to want me
Though my pocketbook is empty
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21 Aug 01 - 03:12 AM (#532266) Subject: 'Waiting For a Train' by Jimmie Rogers From: GUEST,tthurston@hotmail.com Looking for lyrics to "Waiting for a Train" By Jimmie Rodgers |
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21 Aug 01 - 07:23 AM (#532342) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Waiting For a Train' by Jimmie Roge From: Dharmabum You can find the lyrics for this & other Jimmie Rodgers songs at Cowpie. http://www.roughstock.com/cowpie/songs DB. |
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21 Aug 01 - 08:49 AM (#532363) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Waiting For a Train' by Jimmie Roge From: JedMarum cowpie |
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21 Aug 01 - 09:25 AM (#532389) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Waiting For a Train' by Jimmie Roge From: GUEST Eric Andersen did an incredible version of this song. |
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21 Aug 01 - 09:40 AM (#532405) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Waiting For a Train' by Jimmie Roge From: masato sakurai Jimmie Rodgers sings "Waiting for the Train" and two other songs in a short film The Singing Brakeman produced in 1929. It is said to be "his only appearance on film." This film is now in Times Ain't Like They Used To Be: Early American Rural & Popular Music (Yazoo 512) [Video & DVD].
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07 May 03 - 07:21 PM (#948171) Subject: RE: Jimmie Davis From: GUEST,carlwest2001@yahoo.com I am looking for the lyrics for All around the water tank, just waiting for a train. Thanks, Carl |
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07 May 03 - 08:11 PM (#948197) Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: WAITING FOR A TRAIN (J Rodgers) From: Sandy Mc Lean Thats Jimmie Rodgers, not Davis WAITING FOR A TRAIN words and music by Jimmie Rodgers 1929 F C7 F F7 All Around the Water Tank Bb Bbm F Waiting For a Train Bb F Dm A thousand Miles Away From Home G7 C7 Sleeping in the Rain F C7 F I walked Up to a brakeman F7 Bb Bbm F To Give Him A Line of Talk Bb F He says "If you've got Money G7 C7 F I'll see that you don't walk" C7 F I haven't got a nickel F7 Bb A7 Not a penny can I show Bb F He said Get off you Railroad Bum G7 C7 F And he slammed the box car door (yodel) F C7 F C7 F C7 F C7 F He put me off in Texas F7 Bb Bbm F A place I surely love Bb F Wide open spaces 'round me G7 C7 The Moon and Stars above F C7 F Nobody seems to want me F7 Bb Bbm F or Lend me a helping Hand Bb F I'm On my Way from Frisco G7 C7 F Goin back to Dixieland C7 F My pocket book is empty F7 Bb A7 And my heart is filled with pain Bb F I'm a thousand Miles away from home G7 C7 F Just Waiting for a train (yodel) |
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09 May 03 - 11:02 AM (#949336) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers) From: Joe Offer I got a nice note of thanks from requestor Carl West. Thanks, Sandy and Ralph. -Joe Offer- |
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09 May 03 - 11:17 AM (#949351) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers) From: Fortunato Interesting that Sandy hears a B flat minor in the recording. |
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09 May 03 - 01:13 PM (#949452) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers) From: Sandy Mc Lean This progression is from Cowpie. I do the song in "C" without the minor. Sandy |
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09 May 03 - 01:35 PM (#949479) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers) From: PoppaGator I learned the tune in 1970 or '71 from a 2-volume "complete" Jimmie Rodgers songbook, with the same key-of-F chords cited above. The B-flat to B-flat-minor change always sounded right to me. I found it difficult to play, at first, because I used to avoid barre chords (using my thumb instead), and this song in this key pretty much requires the use of at least some barre-chord fingerings to make the changes quickly enough. Considered transposing, but *something* was difficult in every key I tried, and I wound up learning to do it well enough in F. (As it turned out, this was the best key for me to yodel in.) |
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29 Oct 10 - 05:38 PM (#3018882) Subject: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: olddude Still love it after all these years ... Today Jimmie wouldn't get 10 minutes in Nashville so sad. priceless |
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29 Oct 10 - 05:49 PM (#3018888) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: Emma B One of the first American (non 'pop') recordings I ever heard - still love it too. |
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29 Oct 10 - 05:52 PM (#3018891) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: olddude This is a very rare video, does anyone know what guitar Jimmie is playing is that a Gibson? |
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29 Oct 10 - 06:02 PM (#3018895) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: Will Fly One of my all-time favourite YouTube clips! It's a customised guitar - note the "Jimmie Rodgers" name inlayed in the fretboard. Looks like a Martin to me, but what do I know? Wonderful. |
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29 Oct 10 - 06:13 PM (#3018908) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: olddude You should do this one Will, you would do it justice my friend. Today we have Taylor Swift "country" My boyfriend left me he is dirt but I am ok and forgot you already diary music ... what the hell is that all about !!! Where is our Jimmie Rodgers? |
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29 Oct 10 - 06:15 PM (#3018910) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: Will Fly Another favourite of mine - just check out Jimmie's picking technique - not quite as simple as you first think... T for Texas I noticed the word "Martin" on the blackboard behind Jimmie - sneaky ad? |
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29 Oct 10 - 06:18 PM (#3018915) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: olddude Cool, checking it out now Will, please do "waiting for a train" you would do a great job on it I do his "in the jailhouse now" Not very well mind you .... but I do play it. Love Jimmie Rodgers in the jailhouse |
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29 Oct 10 - 06:24 PM (#3018920) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: Mark Ross It's a Weyman guitar. Mark Ross |
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29 Oct 10 - 06:25 PM (#3018923) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: olddude Thanks Mark !! |
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29 Oct 10 - 06:30 PM (#3018927) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: Mark Clark I believe that's a 000-45 Martin guitar. You can see Joe Coffey of Premier Guitar Magazine and the guitar in the Jimmie Rodgers Museum Tour on YouTube. - Mark |
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29 Oct 10 - 06:33 PM (#3018932) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: olddude Well like the rest of us I am sure Jimmie had several guitars ... but that one he is playing doesn't really look like a 000-45 but may very well be as I am no expert for sure... got me a bit puzzled though ... you could be right |
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29 Oct 10 - 09:00 PM (#3019022) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: Mark Ross He also had a custom made Weyman. See Nolan Porterfield's bio. Mark Ross |
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29 Oct 10 - 09:26 PM (#3019043) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: olddude Jimmie doing Daddy and home daddy and home |
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29 Oct 10 - 10:06 PM (#3019063) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: Ron Davies It's interesting the many different ways Jimmie did this song. He changed the melody in this recording--(which seems to be from a movie--anybody know more about this?) from the tune he's frequently thought of as using. It's quite similar but there are changes. Obviously he just did it the way he felt at at any given time. I wonder how the sheet music (there must have been sheet music eventually for such a smash hit) went. Jimmie dominated "hillbilly" music (and a lot more) so completely that "every label wanted its own Jimmie Rodgers" and lots of would-be singers, like Gene Autry (who went to New York in 1928 as Orvon Grover Autry, and shed that name there) were strongly urged to learn to yodel, since yodeling was the key to a recording contract. So Gene went home and did it, starting out his career doing an amazingly good imitation of Jimmie. A real interesting recording of this for me is the one with the jazz group--does it include Louis Armstrong?-- backing Jimmie up---proving that boundaries at that time between "hillbilly (as it was then called) and jazz were amazingly fluid. |
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29 Oct 10 - 10:18 PM (#3019070) Subject: RE: Jimmy Rodgers Waiting for a Train From: olddude His influence cut across all genres of music. He was a true legend in every sense of the word and many greats credit him as such. God Bless you Jimmie |
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30 Oct 10 - 04:22 AM (#3019148) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers) From: Will Fly Ron - I was also initially surprised to hear Armstrong's backing of Rodgers on "My Blue-Eyed Jane". You wouldn't initially put them together. The back story, as I heard it, is that they both happened to be in the same city at the same time and, taking advantage of the situation, made a recording together. Of course, they were both established stars in their own field, so it's not that surprising, really. There was also a lot of crossover between black and white musicians at that time, and Jimmie Rodgers' music was very popular with black people. |
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30 Oct 10 - 04:34 AM (#3019152) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers) From: Will Fly Hey Dan - I did a version or two of JR's stuff on YouTube - "Blue-Eyed Jane" and "Waiting For A Train" some years ago. But I wouldn't do the arrangements in the same way if I was doing them now... His songs make interesting instrumentals as well. I did T For Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1) as an instrumental some time ago. Though it's purely instrumental, I tried to capture the essence of the guitar riffs and the tune... |