Southern Railroad Blues / key of "D"
Norman Blake

SOUTHERN RAILROAD BLUES
(Norman Blake Version)

Well, gather 'round boys, let me tell you some n(ews)oise, for precious few is true
It's been a long, long wait since '38, and lordy I'm a telling' you, it's a two-tied shoe
I got the Southern Railroad Blues

Now, crossing lines with these modern times, for me it's a-gettin' hard
Wish I was back in Sulfur Springs (Georgia, where he was born), way down at the section       yard would do
Got the Southern Railroad Blues

Gold watch chains,like gold bar trains and manning overhauls
Workin' that track down to hell and back and drinkin' alkeeholl
All four roses too, got the Southern Railroad blues.

Sittin' in the kitchen just a chewing' and a bitchin' 'cause people was telling' lies
Back in '32 when the trestle fell through, and Jimmy Jesse Raglan died, engine 302
Got the Southern Railroad blues

Well, times is tough, loading tracks there up, gonna drive in every day
MacDell boys done bought up the land, way down on the freeway
They're comin' through, got the Southern Railroad blues.

Every day I just in Washington trust and lay it for me, it's true
I guess I'll live until I die and God knows I'm through, I believe in you
Got the Southern Railroad blues.

Bob Sontrop
London, Canada
August 9/ 14