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Thread #28408   Message #932511
Posted By: Barry Finn
13-Apr-03 - 03:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Who was Eloise in Leadbelly's Linin'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who was Eloise in Leadbelly's Linin'
Hi Stewie, No connection that I know of. Here's a verse & chorus found in 'Railroad Songs & Ballads' collected by J & A Lomax from Allen Prothero (a railroad man) State Penn. Nashville. Tenn 1933. Same yr as collected , I believe from Black Sampson.


Hey, boys joint ahead

I'm gonna tell something now

Oh, all I want, my navy beans

A big fat woman & a wheeler team


Hi,hi.won't you line em

Hi, hi won't you line em

Ho, ho won't you line em

See Eloise go lining track


Barry