Subject: Lyr Req: Wolverine 14 Talking Blues Utah Phillips From: open mike Date: 07 Dec 16 - 05:30 PM Wondering if anyone has the lyrics to this Utah Phillips train song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FiZIqYfusA I had the great good fortune to be able to video Rosalie Sorrells singing this song while we rode on a train across Canada... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQS-s971utQ&t=24s |
Subject: Lyr Add: WOLVERINE 14 TALKING BLUES (Utah Phillips From: GUEST,cnd Date: 07 Dec 16 - 06:33 PM WOLVERINE 14 TALKING BLUES As recorded by Rosalie Sorrels on "Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook" (2005)
Give me a train with an all-night bar.
Got the black smoke rollin' from the stack.
[start talking blues section]
I remember the time I rode the Portland Rose.
When a passenger train was a red-ball on the line,
Do you remember the children runnin' up and down the aisles?
Hey, now, give me a train with an all-night bar.
Got the black smoke rollin' from the stack.
Transcribed by ear from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAgR3EDJVzc |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wolverine 14 Talking Blues Utah Phillips From: GUEST,cnd Date: 07 Dec 16 - 06:36 PM Regarding your inquiry about Red Ball, I don't know if it's related to shoes, but a red ball was a high priority freight train https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/red_ball#Adjective |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wolverine 14 Talking Blues Utah Phillips From: Mark Ross Date: 07 Dec 16 - 08:15 PM Utah wrote the lyrics, Andy Cohen put a tune to it. Mark Ross |
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