Lyr Req: Sliding Delta (Mississippi John Hurt)

16 Jan 98 - 01:01 PM (#19322)
Subject: LYR. REQ. Slidin' Delta
From: Brian Hoskin ([e-mail]

Does anyone have the lyrics to Mississippi John Hurt's Slidin' Delta?

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16 Jan 98 - 06:00 PM (#19341)
Subject: Lyr Add: SLIDING DELTA (Mississippi John Hurt)
From: Jon W.

This version is from a live album he recorded in the mid '60s. He might have done a better version when he was younger.

Sliding Delta
Mississippi John Hurt

The Sliding Delta run right by my door,
I'm leaving here baby, honey don't you wanna go?

Leaving here sweet baby, honey don't you wanna go?
I'm goin' up the country, and I ain't comin' back no more.

My suitcase is packed, my trunk's already gone
Oh, I'm leaving here baby, what the world you waitin' on?

Leaving here sweet baby, honey what you waiting on?

I say the Sliding Delta run right by my door,
I'm leaving here baby, honey don't you wanna go?

The big Kate Allen got ways just like a man,
Lord it steal your baby everytime she land.

Will steal your baby every time she land.

I'm going, I'm going
Up the country baby, honey don't you wanna go?

To the river this morning, I sat down on the ground,
Lord I had a good notion, hmm, jumpin' in and drown.

The Sliding Delta run right by my door,
I'm leaving here baby, honey don't you wanna go?

Note: the Sliding Delta is supposed to have been a train, the "big Kate Allen" would have been a riverboat.

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16 Jan 98 - 07:57 PM (#19348)
Subject: RE: LYR. REQ. Slidin' Delta
From: Barry

The Kate comes up in another song. < "The Kate left Memphis with a hundred men, in Arkanas City she didn't have but ten"> from 'Ol Dollar Mamie' Barry

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16 Jan 98 - 08:40 PM (#19351)
Subject: RE: LYR. REQ. Slidin' Delta
From: Bo

Even the Blues Brothers made reference to the Kate

"my baby caught the Kate (KATEE) left me a mule to ride The train pulled out, I ran on behind Crazy 'bout that hard headed woman of mine."

bo

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29 Oct 10 - 04:30 PM (#3018809)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sliding Delta (Mississippi John Hurt)
From: GUEST,Dave

Wasn't the "Katee" a reference to the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad? The M-K-T was known as the "Katy".

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