Singin' the Blues or any other durn thing ya want.

[Arcey]

Another Saturday Night and I ain't got nobody,
I have some money 'cause I just got paid.
How I wish I had someone to talk to,
I'm in an awful way.

I blew in town I week ago, I ain't seen a lotta girls since then.
If I could find 'em I could get 'em, but as yet I haven't met 'em,
That's why I'm in the shape I'm in Ohh

Another Saturday Night and I ain't got nobody,
I have some money 'cause I just got paid.
How I wish I had someone to talk to,
I'm in an awful way.

Another fella told me, he had a sister that looked so fine.
Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strong resemblance to a
Cat named Frankenstein Ohh

Another Saturday Night and I ain't got nobody,
I have some money 'cause I just got paid.
How I wish I had someone to talk to,
I'm in an awful way.

It's hard for a fella, when he don't know his way around,
If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money,
I'm gonna have to blow this town Ohh

Another Saturday Night and I ain't got nobody,
I have some money 'cause I just got paid.
How I wish I had someone to talk to,
I'm in an awful way.

Sam Cooke. Shot to death under questionable circumstances. This date, 1964.

[litl rooster]

  sneakin' out the back door..... the way I heard it.

[Ozark Tracker]

probably been more than we know bought the farm going out the back door or window.

[Ozark Tracker]

Salute to a Switchblade Knife    Tom T. Hall

Me and Yates an army buddy o'mine were doin' three years in Germany at the time
We came upon these Frauleins in the bar
Yates said darf isch zee be-gleit-en they said ya
(And darf isch zee be-gleit-en means can we sit with you all)
Oh we must have drunk ten quarts of German beer
My conscience and my sinuses were clear
I asked that Fraulein if she was a spy she said nein but do bis ain bissel high
(A condition not uncommon to the American soldier)
Well later on I went to be excused when I returned I was a bit confused
Yates and his Fraulein had hit the air another guy was sittin' in my chair
(A young soldier whom we shall get to know better)
I said excuse me Mister that's my seat I'd like to have it back sir if you please
That girl's a nurse and I've been awful sick the man looked up at me and said mox-nix
(Which means that he was not overly concerned with my health)

Next thing I knew he had a switchblade knife
Lord I didn't know that Fraulein was his wife
I took off through that Gasthaus like a fool behind me I heard the crashing stools
(As the police would say he was in hot pursuit)
Well the waitress yelled there's MPs on the way
That's one more reason I didn't want to stay
As I went out the window somethin' went switch
And I giggled all the way home knowin' he missed
(At the time it seemed like a laughing matter)
But next morning my coat was lyin' there on the bunk
And when I saw that coat it made me jump
That man had cut my coat right down the back
A little bit more and they'd been playin' me taps
(And knowin' the sad nature of that song I would decline it)
Well later on I heard that guy got stabbed
They sent him home and didn't that make me glad
On love and marriage I want to say one thing oh lady if you're married wear that ring
(And the army has a new policy if you can't move it paint it
If it has a switchblade knife salute it
Not necessarily an incident one would want to write Mother about
Germany being full of good soldiers good people)

[Texas Lawdog]

Sam was robbed by a prostitute and shot by her PIMP.

[Arcey]

Sam was robbed by a prostitute and shot by her PIMP.

Kindah the way the story sounds ta a couple ole lawdawgs. Ain't it, Tex?

[litl rooster]

 At least he didn't stop at his Dad's on his Birthday for a couple of shots..............re. Marvin

[Arcey]

I heard it thru the carbine.

Sorry, ain't funny...............

[litl rooster]

I heard it thru the carbine.

Sorry, ain't funny...............

izzzz tooooo

[Delmonico]

At least he didn't stop at his Dad's on his Birthday for a couple of shots..............re. Marvin

Speaking of Rock and roller with a history of domestic abuse, I seen a post on the Lab Forum that Ike Turner died, he was 76.

[Delmonico]

Was up workin' on a quilt today and played some real oldies, late 1920's stuff, little Misissippi Blue Yoldler in fact, to bad they didn't have no good antibiotics back then to cure Jimmy's TB.


I'll tell you a story of JIMMIE THE KID
He's a brakeman you all know
He was born in Mississippi, a-way down  south
And he flagged on the T&NO

He yodeled to fame on the Boston Main
The Wabash and the TP
From the old Grand Trunk to the Cotton Belt
He yodeled on the Santa Fe.

YODEL

On the Lehigh Valley, he yodeled awhile
Then he went to the Nickel Plate
From the old Lake Shore and the Erie Line
He yodeled to a Cadillac Eight.

YODEL

He yodeled his way to the C&A
The Lackawanna and IC
He rode a rattler called the Cannon Ball
Then he yodeled on the MK&T

YODEL

Now the story goes that JIMMIE THE KID
Has a yodeling mama so sweet
They go "Cadillac-ing" every night
And they yodel up and down the street.

YODEL

He rode freight trains from East to West
He's fixed himself up nice
He's got a beautiful home, all of his own
It's the yodeler's paradise.

YODEL

They've treated him good, they've treated him bad
He never done any wrong
He yodels a yodel that ever'body knows
Is the yodeling brakeman's song.

YODEL


Still see a few of the old cars around with some of those names still on them on the locals, but they be gettin' few and far between.

[Ozark Tracker]

used to yodell along with this en till  Jackie made me quit 



All around the water tank
Waitin' for a train
A thousand miles away from home
Sleeping in the rain.
I walked up to a brakeman
To give him a line of talk
He says if you've got money
I'll see that you don't walk.
I haven't got a nickle
Not a penny can I show
He said get off you railroad bum
And slammed the boxcar door.
Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh la-ee
Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh.
He put me off in Texas
A place I surely love
Wide open spaces 'round me
The moon and stars above.
Nobody seems to want me
Or lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from 'Frisco
Goin' back to Dixieland.
My pocketbook is empty
And my heart is filled with pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home
Just waiting for a train.
Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh la-ee
Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh.

[Delmonico]

I had a friend named Campbell
He used to rob, steal and gamble
He tried ev'rything that was low-down
He was out tom-cattin' one night
When he started a big fight
Then a  big policeman came and knocked him down.

He's in the jailhouse now
He's in the jailhouse now
I told him over again
To quit drinking whiskey
Lay off of that gin
He's in the jailhouse now. (Yodel)

Campbell broke jail one day
Decided he'd go away
But the police met him at the train
The cop says I've come for you
Campbell says that this won't do
Because Campbell never my name.

He's in the jailhouse now
He's in the jailhouse now
Yes, he broke out
All over town the fool walked about
He's in the jailhouse now. (Yodel)

I met his old gal Sadie
'She said, "Have you seen my baby"
I told her he was downtown in the can
She went down to the jail
Just to go his bail
She said, "I've come down here to get my man."

She's in the jailhouse now
She's in the jailhouse now
So you can understand
Why old kid Sadie's in the can
She's in the jailhouse now. (Yodel)

[Silver Creek Slim]

Tennessee Waltz by Roy Acuff

I was dancing with my darling to the Tennessee Waltz
When an old friend I happened to see
I introduced him to my loved one and while they were dancing
My friend stole my sweetheart from me
I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz
Only you know how much I have lost
Yes I lost my little darling the night they were playing
That beautiful Tennessee Waltz


Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

BTW, the Yodeling lesson is at 6:30 pm. 

Slim

[Tensleep]

BTW, the Yodeling lesson is at 6:30 pm. 

Slim

Tonight? 

[Delmonico]

Ranger Doug says the yodel was invented by a cowboy who went up and lit back down on the horn.

[Texas Lawdog]

Del, I know from personal experience about a collision with the saddle horn. It took the air out of me, I couldn't have yodeled if I wanted to.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Tonight? 

Yep. That's central time. 

Slim

[Tensleep]

Yep. That's central time. 

Slim

Got 6 minutes ta git ready