Lyr Req: The Train that Carried My Girl from Town

14 Apr 97 - 05:14 AM (#4596)
Subject: Lyrics req: La Ziguezon
From: [e-mail]

I'm looking for the lyrics to a Quebequois song performed by the group La bottine Souriante called "La Ziguezon." I'd love some help. Thanks

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23 Apr 97 - 11:31 AM (#4242)
Subject: Title : for train song
From: [e-mail]

"Where were you when the train left town, eft me standin' in the station with my head hangin' down".

Played fingerstyle. Brief musical chorus sounding like train. Need title and lyrics. Thanks, Ouchless

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23 Apr 97 - 02:16 PM (#4254)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE TRAIN THAT CARRIED MY GIRL FROM TOWN
From: Ralph Butts

This song was done by Doc Watson on "The Watson Family" album. Notes say there is no published source, but Doc and his brother Arnold learned it from an Okeh recording by Frank Hutchinson (Hutchison?)..........Tiger

The Train That Carried My Girl From Town—performed by Doc Watson

Where were you when the train left town?
I’s standin’ on the corner with my head hung down,
Hey, that train, done carried my girl from town,
Hey-ey, yeh, hey, yeh.

I wish to the Lord that train would wreck,
Kill the engineer and break the fireman’s neck,
Hey, that train, done carried my girl from town,
Hey-ey, yeh, hey, yeh.

Rations on the table, coffee’s gettin’ cold,
Some dirty rounder stole my jellyroll,
Hey, that train, done carried my girl from town,
Hey-ey, yeh, hey, yeh.

There goes my girl, somebody bring her back,
‘Cause she’s got her hand in my money sack,
Hey, that train, done carried my girl from town,
Hey-ey, yeh, hey, yeh.

SPOKEN Ah, she’s rollin’ on down the line now.

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust,
Lord show me the woman that a man can trust,
Hey, that train, done carried my girl from town,
Hey-ey, yeh, hey, yeh.

SPOKEN Enough to make a man lonely. Oh, yeh!.
This is the way she sounded when she went outa hearin’.

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23 Apr 97 - 10:27 PM (#4274)
Subject: RE: Title :
From: Ouchless

To Ralph Butts:

Thanks

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24 Apr 97 - 11:29 PM (#4300)
Subject: RE: Title :
From:

I think Robin and Linda Williams do a variation on this in their 1985 release "Nine 'til Midnight". Their song is titled "The Train that Carried my Man from Town". I don't know the Watson song so I can't tell if it's the same tune.

Frank Phillips

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