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12 Mar 00 - 01:08 AM (#193685) Subject: All around the water Tank From: Fiddle-D_D Long ago Aunts sang a song--only know some of the words--"all around the water tank, just waiting for the train--a thousand miles away from home just standing in the rain. I walked up to the brakeman just to give him a line of talk he said if you got money I'll see that you don't walk. I haven't got a nickle, not a penny can I show, get off get off you reailroad bum and he slammed the boxcar door..Then I remember they yeodled-- |
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12 Mar 00 - 01:40 AM (#193698) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All around the water Tank From: GUEST,Second Banana He put me off in Texas, a state I dearly love Wide-open spaces alll around me moon and the stars above Nobody seems to want me or to lend me a helping hand I'm on my way from Frisco going back to Dixie Land My pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain I'm a thousand miles away from home Waitin' for a train. Seems like it was Jimmie Rodgers. |
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12 Mar 00 - 01:58 AM (#193701) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All around the water Tank From: Metchosin You can find more about this song on a previous thread if you click here I think more will also come up too, with a further search of the forum. |
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12 Mar 00 - 02:11 AM (#193706) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All around the water Tank From: Billy the Bus Hi Fiddle DD, Yep - Jimmie Rodgers, the "Yodelling Brakeman" certainly sang "All around the watertank" recorded as one of his "Blue Yodels" (1928-29), I think. I seem to recall a couple of extra verses 2nd Banana, weren't there? Alas, my record player is dead just now, so I can't check the discs. I'm off to town for a week tomorrow, and hope to pick up a new (2nd hand) tt. Will pick up this trace when I get home and post the rest, if no-one else has. Cheers _ Sam
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12 Mar 00 - 02:32 AM (#193710) Subject: Lyr Add: WAITING FOR A TRAIN (Jimmie Rodgers) From: Metchosin WAITING FOR A TRAIN (Jimmie Rodgers)
(spoken) Oh lordy, I left dear old 'Frisco for my home down in Dixieland, but here I am, all stranded, down by the Rio Grand. I'm lookin for a hand out now, as I go on my weary way, the stars are my only blanket, I do my travelling by day.
All around the water tanks
Yodel lay hee oh, de lay hee hay, de lay hee
(spoken) If that brakeman only new how bad I want to get back home to my mama, he'd never throwed me off that train. Now I guess I'm goin to have to take this ol guitar of mine out there and play and sing a song, to get me a little bowl of chili.
He put me off in Texas
Yodel lay hee oh, de lay hee hay, de lay hee Recorded by Gene Autry on the Velvet Tone label (ca 1929-1933) |
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12 Mar 00 - 03:50 PM (#193892) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All around the water Tank From: GUEST,Second Banana I just don't remember the spoken parts; I was little when I learned it. Billy Bus, the two verses are all I know. Once in a long while I hear it and it still sounds good. |
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12 Mar 00 - 06:26 PM (#193973) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All around the water Tank From: Stewie The original Jimmie Rodgers version, recorded on 22 October 1928, (no spoken bits) can be found on 'Jimmie Rodgers 1928-1929: The Early Years' Rounder CD 1057. --Stewie. |
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12 Mar 00 - 06:33 PM (#193977) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All around the water Tank From: Susan of DT I probably don't need to mention it, but wotthehell-- Rounder CD 1057 is available through Camsco. |
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12 Jan 08 - 07:21 PM (#2235049) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All around the water Tank From: Amos Here's Jimmie doing the original Waiting For a Train on YouTube. |
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14 Apr 13 - 08:12 AM (#3503152) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All around the Water Tank? (J Rodgers) From: GUEST,Gary Wiles Thank youall. Gary Wiles in Alaska |