《Atlanta Special》歌词

[00:05:53] Artist：bukka white

[00:05:53] Songs Title：atlanta special

[00:05:53] This is song Atlanta Special, here

[00:05:53] Runnin' all down through Georgia

[00:05:53] All down through the south

[00:05:53] An all through the Gulf of Mexico

[00:05:53] When I was a little boy

[00:05:53] I was startin' to catchin' this train

[00:05:53] And I never forget, I fifteen years old.

[00:05:53] I hear'd that train that mo'nin

[00:05:53] That 845 was hittin' that rail

[00:05:53] I had my mule goin' to the field

[00:05:53] To do some plowin' for my old grandfather.

[00:05:53] But when this train was comin' down the line

[00:05:53] She picked up wit' it.

[00:05:53] (guitar - comin' down the line)

[00:05:53] I say, 'Whoa!'

[00:05:53] My mule stopped

[00:05:53] I 'cide to leave, I'd try the world

[00:05:53] I eased on out there

[00:05:53] And I caught the old freight train

[00:05:53] That went on down

[00:05:53] All down through Gulf of Mexico

[00:05:53] And ev'rywhere else.

[00:05:53] Oh, I got to thinkin' about Atlanta, Georgia.

[00:05:53] I say, 'I b'lieve I go back where my

[00:05:53] Old grandmother live at.'

[00:05:53] Oh, one night I was sittin' down

[00:05:53] Boilin' some corn down on the railroad track.

[00:05:53] I thought about what my old grandmother

[00:05:53] Told me years ago.

[00:05:53] Said son

[00:05:53] 'You got to reap what you sew.

[00:05:53] If you don't be a good boy, you gon'

[00:05:53] Have bad luck.'

[00:05:53] I made me a record

[00:05:53] (they'll buys it)

[00:05:53] (This way Atlanta, Georgia)

[00:05:53] This song

[00:05:53] Sung

[00:05:53] I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, left my home

[00:05:53] Mm-mm-mm

[00:05:53] Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord!

[00:05:53] When I fell back in Atlanta, Georgia

[00:05:53] Old lady lived, last name Miss Ester.

[00:05:53] She said, 'Son, I heard one of your records

[00:05:53] About atlanta, georgia.

[00:05:53] Said, 'Can you play it, now?'

[00:05:53] I reached back in my guitar case

[00:05:53] And pulled m'old raggedy guitar out.

[00:05:53] So glad to get back home

[00:05:53] I commenced to playin' this song for Aunt Ester.

[00:05:53] Sung

[00:05:53] Lord, oh Lord, Lord, Lord!

[00:05:53] Mm-mm-mm

[00:05:53] So glad I headed back home

[00:05:53] Old lady starts at me, did I want anything to eat?

[00:05:53] I was sittin' there lookin' out toward the railroad

[00:05:53] Track. i never will forget it, she brought me ham

[00:05:53] An egg, an toasted cheese an hot cup-a-coffee.

[00:05:53] When that straight line ten mile a-goin' to

[00:05:53] I dropped my head an I dropped my food.

[00:05:53] I said, 'Now, I got to ride this train back'.

[00:05:53] She said, 'Son, what is wrong?'

[00:05:53] I said, 'Well, Aunt Ester.'

[00:05:53] I said, 'Booker got to go.'

[00:05:53] That train was turnin' tight that mo'nin.

[00:05:53] (guitar- turnin' tight)

[00:05:53] Aunt Ester ask-ed

[00:05:53] 'Would I know that train if I could hear it?'

[00:05:53] She said, 'You're too young, you don't

[00:05:53] Know nothin' too much about hoboin'.

[00:05:53] I said, 'Well, I tell ya Aunt Ester, if I can

[00:05:53] Hear the bell on this train i could tell you

[00:05:53] Mo' about it.'

[00:05:53] When that train jumped to the fifteen mile

[00:05:53] Curve, a bell will give you a toll like this

[00:05:53] (guitar- bell tolling)

[00:05:53] Made me thought about when my baby

[00:05:53] Got sick n' she died. she's, they called me up.

[00:05:53] When she run in her fifteen mile curve

[00:05:53] She throw'd on the airbrake for la't ten mile.

[00:05:53] (guitar - airbraking)

[00:05:53] So, Aunt E. stops me.

[00:05:53] She says, 'Where you was born at?'

[00:05:53] I said, 'Atlanta, Georgia'

[00:05:53] She said, 'That why you can play that ol' guitar, can't cha!'

[00:05:53] While we was talkin' she heard that train comin'

[00:05:53] Into that fifteen mile curve.

[00:05:53] Two old ladies was on that train, cryin' an supperin'

[00:05:53] Pullin' down the blind. a man give him a signal

[00:05:53] From the engine to the coach to slow down.

[00:05:53] You could hear him chokin' that train 'specially down

[00:05:53] Comin' through lou'siana like this

[00:05:53] (guitar - chokin' train)

[00:05:53] When the man throw'd that red light on

[00:05:53] Him sho' know it come, that fifteen mile curve.

[00:05:53] I ease on off back to the station

[00:05:53] I tol' Aunt E stop, thank her for her food.

[00:05:53] She said, 'Son, don't forget what your

[00:05:53] Mother, now, used to told you

[00:05:53] Now, she said, Take life easy.'

[00:05:53] I jumped on out there and got in the blind.

[00:05:53] That train jumped on outta town.

[00:05:53] (I was steady jumpin' down)

[00:05:53] (Hauled through Georgia, Lou'siana)

[00:05:53] Right on down to a place he called

[00:05:53] Port Teht...

[00:05:53] (That's in Lou'siana)

[00:05:53] (They was stripin' sorghum

[00:05:53] And ev'rything i done got hauled there)

[00:05:53] I get off the freight train

[00:05:53] For a job aks the man for me

[00:05:53] Somethin' to eat

[00:05:53] He said, 'Can you strip sorgham?

[00:05:53] I said, I read about it, but I ain't never did it

[00:05:53] He said, 'If you eat anything, you gon' strip it!'

[00:05:53] I 'cided to do a little piece a-work for him

[00:05:53] He went in there an got me sorghum, molasses

[00:05:53] Cornbread, toasted cheese, hot cup a-coffee.

[00:05:53] My train was in the yard

[00:05:53] The train blowed!

[00:05:53] When I hear that train blow, gettin' on

[00:05:53] I said I'm fixin' to stop t'strippin 'em.

[00:05:53] (guitar to end)

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