Lyr Add: The Southern Blues (Big Bill Broonzy)

Subject: Lyr Add: THE SOUTHERN BLUES
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 08:09 PM

Lyr. Add: THE SOUTHERN BLUES

When I got up this mornin', I heard old Southern whistle blow.
When I got up this mornin', I heard the old Southern whistle blow.
Then I was thinkin' 'bout my baby, Lord, I sure did want to go.

I was standin', lookin' and listenin', watchin' the Southern cross the Dog. (2x)
If my baby didn't catch the Southern, she must have caught the Yellow Dog.

Down at the station, looked up on the board, waitin' for the conductor just to say, "All Aboard."
Down at the station, Lord, I looked up on the board.
I don't know my baby left from here, ooh, but I was told.

I'm goin' to Moorhead, get me a job on the Southern line.
Said I'm goin' to Moorhead, get me a job on the Southern line;
So that I can make some money just to send for that brown of mine.

The Southern crossed the Dog in Moorhead, my, my, Lord, and she keeps on through. (2x)
I say my baby's gone to Georgia, I believe I'll go to Georgia, too.

Big Bill Broonzy (William Lee Conley Broonzy) was born in 1893 in Scott, Mississippi. The "Dog" was the Yellow Dog, the Yazoo Delta line.
In 1914, Broonzy wrote "Yellow Dog Blues." He recorded "The Southern Blues" in 1935, PCA Victor master 85517-1, released on RCA Bluebird B-5998 and B-6964.
Information and music in Norm Cohen, "The Long Steel Rail," pp. 441-443. Comparison is made with other blues by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudip and Roy Harvey.

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