Lyr Add: Steamboat Blow Your Whistle

Subject: Lyr Add: Steamboat Blow Your Whistle
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Feb 23 - 10:23 AM

You can find a recording of this Dixieland song to listen to if you like but here are the lyrics as I've patiently tried to transcribe them:

As led by John Gordy (1904-1961) with Hots Jackson & The Old-Timers band, ©1952

Steamboat, Blow Your Whistle Again

Steamboat, laid low again,
Black smoke, around the bend,
Steaming down the river past a million scenes,
Loaded down with cotton bales bound for New Orleans;
Steamboat, where have you gone?
Where is your lonesome song?
Like a mighty organ plays an old refrain
Your whistle blew away my cares an’ lonely pain;
Steamboat, blow your whistle again!

(Musical interlude)

Steamboat, please go again,
Black smoke, around the bend,
Steaming down the river past a million scenes,
Loaded down with cotton bales for New Orleans;
Steamboat, where have you gone?
Where is your lonesome song?
Like a mighty organ plays an old refrain
Your whistle blew away my cares an’ lonely pain;
Steamboat, blow your whistle again!

(Musical interlude)

Steamboat, where you gone?
Where is your lonesome song?
Like a mighty organ plays an old refrain
Your whistle blew away my cares an’ lonely pain;
Steamboat, blow your whistle, blow your whistle, blow your whistle again!

Cheerily,
Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Steamboat Blow Your Whistle
From: cnd
Date: 28 Feb 23 - 10:45 AM

Here's the recording I checked against: link. Sounds right to me.

The tune is more than a little reminiscent of Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, albeit modified.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Steamboat Blow Your Whistle
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Mar 23 - 12:57 PM

CND,

Thanks for the link.

If you're interested in this song, use the link while it still works.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Steamboat Blow Your Whistle
From: leeneia
Date: 01 Mar 23 - 02:51 PM

Thanks for the link, Charlie. That song is fun.