[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