Posted by Ari Eisinger on February 8, 2004, 4:31 pm, in reply to "Lemon Jefferson's Wartime Blues" If I could shine my light like a headlight on some train I'm going to the river, gonna walk it up and down What do people think of this idea I've been thinking about? I'd like to put on my website a section containing my take on the lyrics of alot of blues from the 1920s and 1930s. It wouldn't be done in slavish chronological order, but perhaps I'd post a combination of what I'm most interested in and some of what people request. So often these lyrics either misunderstood or not understood at all. --Previous Message--
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See recent CD Blind Lemon Jefferson: "Long Lonesome Blues: Lemon's Texts Revealed" from Arbiter Records, on which I provided some suggestions on the lyrics. Here's what I hear for those two parts:
I would shine my light in Colorado Springs
If I don't find ??? (no idea on this part)
: I've been having trouble trying to figure out
: a few of the lyrics to Wartime Blues. Like
: "...If I could shine like a headlight on
: some train, I'd shine my light
: and...?..." And "...I'm going to
: the river walking up and down I don't
: find...?... I'm going to jump overboard and
: drown." Any idea what he might be saying
: there? Thanks.
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