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Thread #48124   Message #721117
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
01-Jun-02 - 12:08 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Old Bill Jones
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Bill Jones
MILWAUKEE BLUES

One(A) Tuesday morning and it looked like rain
A- (E7)round the curve come a passenger train
(A)On the blinds sat (D)old Bill Jones
(A)Good old hobo and he's (E7)tryiin' to get (A)home,
(D)Tryin' to get home, he's tryin' to get home (A)
He's a good old hobo and he's (E7)tryin' to get (A)home.

Variant, also Charlie Poole. The verses follow those in the DT but with the added lines at the end which continue the words of the 4th line. From "The Long Steel Rail, Norm Cohen, p. 385-389.
As members of this group of related songs, Norm Cohen lists Jay Gould's Daughter, Jay Gould, Hobo John, Ramblin' John, Old John Brown, Charlie Snyder, and Casey Jones. Also Jimmie Jones.
The Forum should have a lot of comment on this group of songs. "Since Gould owned the MP between 1879 and 1892, however, we can assign an approximate date to the Jay Gould ditties" -Norm Cohen.