redpaul1
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I recorded this for ~dave~~wave~'s SOTU (#64 - Louisiana Hot Sauce), but then discovered that the Crescent City of the title is not a reference to New Orleans. It's in fact quite literal - a blues about being stuck in Crescent City IL.
In view of its musicological interest, I'm kind of surprised that I can find no reference to it anywhere on the pages of UU, hence my posting it here, for which I crave your indulugence:
Music & Lyrics, Gordon Jenkins, 1954 - from the concept album '7 Dreams': Second Dream - The Conductor.
Interesting information about the original can be found here: Folsom Prison Whose?
In view of its musicological interest, I'm kind of surprised that I can find no reference to it anywhere on the pages of UU, hence my posting it here, for which I crave your indulugence:
Music & Lyrics, Gordon Jenkins, 1954 - from the concept album '7 Dreams': Second Dream - The Conductor.
Interesting information about the original can be found here: Folsom Prison Whose?
Code:
Crescent City Blues
Gordon Jenkins, 1954
E
I hear the train a-comin, it's rolling 'round the bend
E7
And I ain't been kissed lord since I don't know when
A7 E
The boys in Crescent City don't seem to know I'm here
B7 E
That lone-some whistle seems to tell me, Sue, disap-pear
E
When I was just a baby my mama told me, Sue,
E7
When you're grown up I want that you should go and see and do
A7 E
But I'm stuck in Crescent City just watching life mosey by
B7 E
When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry
E
I see the rich folks eatin' in that fancy dining car
E7
They're probably having pheasant breast, and eastern caviar
A7 E
Now I ain't crying envy and I ain't crying me
B7 E
It's just that they get to see things that I've never seen
E
If I owned that lonesome whistle, if that railroad train was mine
E7
I bet I'd find a man a little farther down the line
A7 E
Far from Crescent City is where I'd like to stay
B7 E
And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues a-way
