Lyr Req: Last Train from Poor Valley (Norman Blake

Subject: Last Train From Poor Valley
From: McMusic
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 02:38 AM

Okay Alison, I'll give 'er a go this way. If anyone can provide me with/guide me to the lyrics to the song, "Last Train From Poor Valley", and, if you have 'em ('cause I'm sorta lazy) the chords, I'd appreciate it. Believe it's a Norman Blake tune. Thanks.

Subject: RE: Last Train From Poor Valley
From: alison
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 02:47 AM

Trust me McMusic.. it'll be a lot easier for you to find next time you go looking for it. good luck....

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Last Train From Poor Valley
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 03:16 AM

Click here for a brief sample. McMusic, if you promise NEVER to post in a generic-titles thread again, maybe I can transcribe the lyrics for you. Or is it that you have the recording, and don't want to do the transcription yourself?
(grin)
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lyr Add: THE LAST TRAIN FROM POOR VALLEY^^
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 04:00 AM

The Last Train From Poor Valley
(Norman Blake)
 
It was good one time
Everything was mighty fine
The coal tipples roared day and night
But things they got slow
For no reason that I know
And ill winds they hove into sight
 
The mines all closed down
Everybody lay around
There wasn't very much left to do
Except stand in that line
And get your ration scrip/script [take your pick!] on time
And woman I could see it killing you
 
CHORUS
Now the soft new snows of December
Lightly fall my cabin round
Saw the last train from Poor Valley
Taking brown haired Becky Richmond bound
 
It's been coming on I know
Soon you would be gone
Leaving crossed your mind every day
Then you said to me
Things are bad back home you see
I guess I'd better be on my way
 
CHORUS
 
I should blame you now
But I never could somehow
A miner's wife you weren't cut out to be
It wasn't what you thought
Just some dreams that you bought
When you left home and ran away with me
 
CHORUS

Subject: RE: Last Train From Poor Valley
From: McMusic
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 04:36 AM

Thanks, Joe. I hereby swear and foreswear that I won't never do what you told me not to do, never, ever again as long I we both shall live. If I do break the oath by which I am foresworn, may my dog never hunt, my sow never grunt, my hens never lay, my fields lose their hay.... To be honest, I don't have a version of that song, but I heard it at a festival--the melody stuck with me, but I could never remember all the words. Thanks again.

Subject: LYR REQ: Last Train from Poor Valley
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 06:30 AM

McMusic is looking for the words and chords to this song. He thinks it was done by Norman Blake. I'm just helping him find "the Mudcat Way" to get his request met.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Last Train from Poor Valley
From: Wolfgang
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 06:33 AM

here

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Last Train from Poor Valley
From: Wolfgang
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 06:37 AM

Roger,
McMusic has learned the lesson already as you can see following my link. My very short response was but another failed attempt at the fastest response time with a link.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Last Train from Poor Valley
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 07:42 AM

Wolfgang,

I've known it for a long time. You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to beat Joe Offer.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Last Train From Poor Valley
From: alison
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 10:20 AM

Hahahaha

told you you'd get better results this way. **grin**

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Last Train from Poor Valley
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 01:50 PM

Hey, Wolfgang has come up with three-minute responses twice now, that I've seen. I was the first with three minutes, but I've done it only once. I think that means we have a new champion.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Last Train From Poor Valley
From: McMusic
Date: 16 Jul 99 - 01:00 AM

You wuz right. Will ne'er doubt ye. And my thanks to all!

Subject: Last Train From Poor Valley
From: Townes
Date: 28 May 02 - 09:57 PM

G'day Catters I have found the lyrics for "The last Train From Poor Valley" in the Digitrad but can any one help me with a chord progression. If I had a copy of the tune I could work it out, but I have only heard it a couple of times and I am running on vague memory recall. perhaps the chord pro will help

regards Townes

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Last Train From Poor Valley
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 28 May 02 - 10:14 PM

Click here for the tune.

Steve

Subject: Lyr Add: Last Train From Poor Valley
From: masato sakurai
Date: 28 May 02 - 11:46 PM

Last Train From Poor Valley

It was good one time, everything was mighty fine
The coal tripples roared day and night
But things they got slow for no reason that I know
And ill winds they pulled them aside.

The mines all closed down everybody laid round
There wasn't very much left to do
'cept stand in that line get your ration script on time
And woman I could see it killin' you.

Chorus:
Now the soft new snows of December
Lightly fall my cabin round
Saw the last train from Poor Valley
Tanin' brown haired Becky Richmond bound.

It's been comin' on I know, soon you'd be gone
Leavin' crossed your mind every day
Then you said to me "things are bad home, you see"
Guess I'd better be on my way.

Chorus:

I should blame you now, but never could some how
A miner's wife you weren't cut out to be
Wasn't what you thought, just some dreams that you bought
When you left home and ran away with me.

Chorus:

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Last Train From Poor Valley
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 May 02 - 12:16 AM

Posted by Joe Offer in 1999, thread 12261, Norman Blake lyrics, and it has the wiggly mark, butit didn't make it into the DT (Copyright reasons?) Last Train

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Last Train from Poor Valley (Norman Blake
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Aug 19 - 04:07 PM

Thank you. I've been trying to find the album Fields of November for weeks. It was introduced to me by a very good friend who's passed. I'm not much of a bluegrass fan, but I really liked Norman and his wife who collaborated on the album.I forgot his name but I remember just a little bit of the lyrics to Last Train from Poor Valley. That led me here. It's not exactly like I could ask my friend.
Now I can rest, knowing that I found it. Bought it on iTunes.
Many thanks,
Later 'tater.
xxxooo
Dr. Dr. Dr. clay

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Last Train from Poor Valley (Norman Blake
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 18 Aug 19 - 04:14 PM

Here it is on YouTube.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Last Train from Poor Valley (Norman Blake
From: clueless don
Date: 19 Aug 19 - 10:44 AM

I always thought the wife's name was "Becky Richmond", and that the lyric was "Takin' brown-haired Becky Richmond down" (as in "down home".) It never occurred to me until just now that her name was Becky and her home town was Richmond, and that she was "Richmond bound". Of course, that's why I'm called clueless!

Don