Lyr Req: The Titanic Blues

Subject: The Titanic Blues
From: Larkin
Date: 27 Mar 02 - 09:24 AM

Anybody got the words to Titanic Blues- Tells the story of The boxer jack Johnson not being able to board the Titanic coz in the words of the Captain ' This ship don't haul coal " The chorus is It's midnight on the sea and the band played nearer my god to thee- Fare thee titanic- Fare thee w

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Titanic Blues
From: GUEST,Stefan Wirz
Date: 27 Mar 02 - 02:04 PM

here are the words, here you can hear a soundclip of a lovely version by guitarist extraordinaire John Miller !

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Titanic Blues
From: masato sakurai
Date: 27 Mar 02 - 09:30 PM

"Titanic" is also in The Leadbelly Songbook (Oak, 1962, p. 26).

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Titanic Blues
From: GUEST,technission
Date: 28 Mar 02 - 04:41 PM

If you're pawing through old vinyl at garage sales, etc. and come across an album by Jaime Brockett (sp?)which
I think is titled "If Only I Could Remember My Name" it has this song on it - one entire vinyl side!
In fact until this thread I assumed he had written it.

Don't forget to exhale on your third trip around the wheelhouse, cap'n!

Michael