Queensberry, do you have the lyrics book titles Talkin to Myself: Blues Lyrics 1921-1942? There's an online edition here, that's acutally better than the print version (and free of charge). It doesn't work for this song - lots of lyrics by Leroy Carr, but not this one.

I'll work up a transcription in a later post.

999, try Spotify.com if you have a broadband connection. For now, it's free in the U.S. - and I think also in Canada.

-Joe-

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Talkin' to Myself has one song with this title, by Maggie Jones:

Box Car Blues
recorded by Maggie Jones
New York, 13 Nov. 1924
(140134‑3) Co‑14047‑D VJM VLP‑23

Every time : I see a railroad track

Feel like riding : feel like going back

Catch a train : that's headed for the South

Going back south : to get smacked in the mouth

Got a man : way down old Texas way

Going to meet him : ain't got time to stay

Got the boxcar blues : feel like a tramp

Going to be down : in a Texas camp

Told the engineer : to drive them down

Broke and hungry : tired of tramping around

Boxcar boxcar : don't you carry two

Ride me ride me : sooth my boxcar blues