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Lyr Req: Mobile Line

19 May 01 - 08:46 PM (#466533)
Subject: Mobile Line
From: GUEST,Martoons

Looking for lyrics to a song I've heard on Kweskin Jug band CD. I can't seem to make out most of them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

19 May 01 - 09:47 PM (#466550)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mobile Line
From: catspaw49

This one was a real bitch to find, but WE GOT IT!!!!

CLICK HERE

Spaw

19 May 01 - 10:04 PM (#466560)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mobile Line
From: Giac

Here's a link to another version of Mobile Line (France Blues) that was recorded by several people along about the same time as the Kweskin Jug Band. More recently, this version was recorded on Jimmie Dale Gilmore's Spinning Around The Sun CD. Scroll down about halfway for different, and more words:

Mobile Line

19 May 01 - 10:22 PM (#466572)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE MOBILE-TEXAS LINE
From: MarkS

There was also, I dont know if it is a take off or if the song we are discussing is a takeoff, an older song called "The Mobile-Texas Line."

Was you ever down on the Mobile-Texas line
Was you ever down on the Mobile-Texas line
If you were say hello to that good old gal of mine.

I've rode the Texas Central boys, I've rode the L and M
I've rode the Texas Central boys, I've rode the L and M
And those Alabama women, they look like section men.

You also use the same tune and guitar technique for another oldie, "Turn Your Money Green." If this is what you are looking for, let me know by return post and I will try to get all the details I can.
Regards
MarkS

19 May 01 - 10:34 PM (#466583)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mobile Line
From: catspaw49

There is an old thread where both of these options were discussed and never found! Now we have three songs all found or listed.....Thanks Giac and Mark!

........and people say the 'Cat was better in the old days. I been around here a long while and it's different now that we've grown, but it certainly has come a long way towards finding things like this!

Spaw

19 May 01 - 10:36 PM (#466585)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mobile Line
From: Troll

A friend of mine named Charlie Jirousek plays Mobile Line. When his daughter, Terry, was three or four, she thought he was saying "Oatmeal Line" so that's how he introduces it sometimes. It embassases her no end since she is now a very mature ( and drop-dead gorgeous ) seventeen.
We always camp together at the Florida Folk Festival and ahve a weekend of great music and fun.

troll

19 May 01 - 10:40 PM (#466588)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mobile Line
From: catspaw49

.........you dirty ol' troll you..............

Spaw

20 May 01 - 08:51 AM (#466727)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mobile Line
From: GUEST,Martoons

Excelleny. Thanks to all for the help.

25 Apr 02 - 03:01 PM (#698505)
Subject: Lyr Add: MOBILE LINE (GONNA CARRY ME AWAY FROM...
From: Jim Dixon

If you're going to go to all that trouble to find a song, and it fits the definition of folk or blues (however you construe that), why not copy and paste it into the Forum? It may not be there (at the other web site) the next time somebody looks for it, and then it'll be a bitch to find all over again.

Lyrics copied from http://die-augenweide.de/spoon/lyrics/mobile_line.htm :

MOBILE LINE (GONNA CARRY ME AWAY FROM THE BULL FROG BLUES)
(Peter Stampfel, Antania Duren)

Oh, did you ever take a trip, baby, on the Mobile Line?
I said, hey, lawdy, mama, mama, hey, lawdy, papa, talkin' bout the Mobile Line.
That's a road to ride to ease you worried mind.

I woke up this morning, baby, 'bout a quarter, baby, 'bout a quarter, a quarter to three.
I woke up this morning, baby, 'bout a quarter to three.
You know my baby, she done left me.

Well, did you ever wake up with the bullfrogs on your, on your mind?
Did you ever wake up with the bullfrogs on your mind?
Well that's a sure sign, baby, there's a bullfrog on your mind.

[Performed by John Sebastian on "Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings," Rhino Handmade #7758, 2001.]

25 Apr 02 - 03:14 PM (#698517)
Subject: Lyr Add: MOBILE LINE (FRANCE BLUES)
From: Jim Dixon

Copied from http://www.jimmiegilmore.com/pages/satslyrics.html :

MOBILE LINE (FRANCE BLUES)
(Traditional; arrangement/adaptation by Jimmie Dale Gilmore)

Well, hey, mama, now, did you ever go down on, down on the Mobile Line?
Hey, lordy, mama, mama, hey, lordy, papa, papa, holler 'bout the Mobile Line.
Well, it's a road to ride to ease your troublin' mind.

Well, I got a letter, now, this is the way it read.
Hey, lordy, mama, mama, hey, lordy, papa, papa, holler 'bout the way it read.
Said, "Come home, baby, because your lover is dead."

Well, I ran out and I hopped out on the road.
Hey, lordy, mama, mama, hey, lordy, papa, papa, holler 'bout on the road.
When I got there, she was laying on a coolin' board.

Now, when I die, mama, don't you bury papa at all.
Hey, lordy, mama, mama, hey, lordy, papa, papa, holler 'bout your papa at all.
Just throw my bones down in some alcohol.

And when I die, mama, put my picture in a frame.
Hey, lordy, mama, mama, hey, lordy, papa, papa, holler 'bout a picture in a frame.
Hang it up on the mantle. You can see me just the same.

And when I die, I think I'm gonna stop by France.
Hey, lordy mama, mama, hey, lordy, papa, papa, holler 'bout a stop by France.
Gonna stop by France just to give all the women a chance.

Well, it's a road to ride to ease your troublin' mind.

[Recorded by Jimmie Dale Gilmore on "Spinning Around the Sun," Elektra CD #61502-2, 1993.]