The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #2300   Message #3414136
Posted By: Dave MacKenzie
04-Oct-12 - 06:06 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Lonesome Pine Special (Carter Family)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lonesome Pine Special (Carter Family)
I've got it slightly different:

LONESOME PINE SPECIAL

I was walking out this morning with rambling on my mind;
I'm going to catch the special, that train called Lonesome Pine;
You can hear the whistle blowing and she's coming down the line,
That's the train I catch this morning to ease my troubling mind.

Hodel-ay-ho, ho-lay-ho-lee,
Hodel-ay-ho, ho-lay-ho-lee,
Take me back to Texas,
Back to my old home.

Oh I'm weeping like a willow and I'm mourning like a dove,
There's a girl way back in Texas that I know I really love,
Oh I'm going back to Texas where the lonesome coyotes whine
With the longhorn cattles roaming round that cabin home of mine.

Oh give me back my rifle, oh give me back my gun,
Give me back my home in Texas and my rambling days are done.





As sung by the Carter Family on RCA Victor EP RCX-7110, "The Original and Great Carter Family" volume 5. Recorded 25 November 1930.