atlanta special 6 03 trk 20 bukka white recorded 1963 memphis tennessee album parchman farm blues roots rts 33055 bukka spoken this is song atlanta special here runnin all down through georgia all down through the south an all through the gulf of mexico when i was a little boy i was startin to catchin this train and i never forget i fifteen years old i hear d that train that mo nin that 8 45 was hittin that rail i had my mule goin to the field to do some plowin for my old grandfather but when this train was comin down the line she picked up wit it i say whoa my mule stopped i cide to leave i d try the world i eased on out there and i caught the old freight train that went on down all down through gulf of mexico and ev rywhere else oh i got to thinkin about atlanta georgia i say i b lieve i go back where my old grandmother live at oh one night i was sittin down boilin some corn down on the railroad track i thought about what my old grandmother told me years ago said son you got to reap what you sew if you don t be a good boy you gon have bad luck i made me a record this song sings i m sorry sorry sorry left my home mm mm mm lord lord lord lord when i fell back in atlanta georgia old lady lived last name miss ester she said son i heard one of your records about atlanta georgia said can you play it now i reached back in my guitar case and pulled m old raggedy guitar out so glad to get back home i commenced to playin this song for aunt ester sings lord oh lord lord lord mm mm mm so glad i headed back home old lady starts at me did i want anything to eat i was sittin there lookin out toward the railroad track i never will forget it she brought me ham an egg an toasted cheese an hot cup a coffee when that straight line ten mile a goin to i dropped my head an i dropped my food i said now i got to ride this train back she said son what is wrong i said well aunt ester i said booker got to go that train was turnin tight that mo nin aunt ester ask ed would i know that train if i could hear it she said you re too young you don t know nothin too much about hoboin i said well i tell ya aunt ester if i can hear the bell on this train i could tell you mo about it when that train jumped to the fifteen mile curve a bell will give you a toll like this made me thought about when my baby got sick n she died she s they called me up when she run in her fifteen mile curve she throw d on the airbrake for la t ten mile so aunt e stops me she says where you was born at i said atlanta georgia she said that why you can play that ol guitar can t cha while we was talkin she heard that train comin into that fifteen mile curve two old ladies was on that train cryin an supperin pullin down the blind a man give him a signal from the engine to the coach to slow down you could hear him chokin that train specially down comin through lou siana like this when the man throw d that red light on him sho know it come that fifteen mile curve i ease on off back to the station i tol aunt e stop thank her for her food she said son don t forget what your mother now used to told you now she said take life easy i jumped on out there and got in the blind that train jumped on outta town right on down to a place he called port teht i get off the freight train for a job aks the man for me somethin to eat he said can you strip sorgham i said i read about it but i ain t never did it he said if you eat anything you gon strip it i cided to do a little piece a work for him he went in there an got me sorghum molasses cornbread toasted cheese hot cup a coffee my train was in the yard the train blowed when i hear that train blow gettin on i said i m fixin to stop t stripin em 