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FrumpyBB
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Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:41 pm |
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Just thought I wanted to share. I had an half hour to kill anyway.
Western Union appears in quite a number of pre war blues titles, maybe I´ll do a list at one time, usually it´s about receiving telegrams but at times also about getting (train) fares sent to; this time it´s about a long-distance phone call.
Nevertheless, some lines are actually quite fitting. Sorry for the bad quality.
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"Papa Freddie" Spruell: Way Back Down Home
I went to the Western Union just to turn up a telephone,
I´m going to telephone her in Memphis, I really mean I was dragged down home.
Some people say that I am right now, listen, some say I´m wrong,
You know I can´t have a darn steady when I ain´t doing anything but being dragging down home.
I mean I´m used to drinking and I´m used to a seeing a great good time,
Think I´ll be way back down home, Lord, where I sure won´t clog/cluck? my mind.
Now the ticket agent she told me when the Western Union agent gave me my number wrong:
"You sure can get your number but you can´t come when I will drag down home."
"Tell me now what´s the matter, darling, something must have been going all wrong!
Now you are just like get another girl here, I really mean here now from way back down home!"
"Now listen now, baby, now don´t you tell me wrong!
I must have been having the right number when I went to Western Union to have the telephone." |
Kind of fitting, yes
"Mister Freddie" Spruell : Way Back Down Home"
As for getting actual money sent to by Western Union, King Solomon Hill´s "The Gone Dead Train" comes to mind but I won´t post this, too, it´s on the web as public domain anyway. The singer asks the conductor "let me ride the blinds", he says "I´m sorry, this train ain´t mine." and continues with "You might go to the Western Union, you might get a chance, you might get some of your people sending you fare, you are asking me in vain." |
_________________ SIR,I DON'T ENTERTAIN RIGMAROLE AND THERE IS NO ROOM FOR DILLY- DALLY.
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Dan the lotto man, ARK mugu wedding
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Fowan Nyne
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Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:04 pm |
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He could see into the future!
I'm off to see if I can find a copy.
Voice drifting away singing: "Now the ticket agent she told me when the Western Union agent gave me my number wrong..." |
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Badgerbait
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Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:15 am |
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What a fantastic find for the ol' K7 hold music!!!! |
_________________ I have arrived in Moscow. Has gone to bank and to me have told that there is no such transfer for me!!!!
What does it mean? You played with me? If it so that you very much the cruel man and I am assured of that that the god will see your cruelty.
Explain to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Alena Byk0va
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Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. -Hamlet, scene iv
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FrumpyBB
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Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:50 am |
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It´s on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO1l41xvsUQ
LINK has the lyrics, the stanza of interest is:
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Oooo-ooh, I wanna ride your train
I said, "Look here, engineer, can I ride your train?"
He said, "Look here, you oughta know this train ain't mine and you're asking me in vain"
Said, "You go to the Western Union, you might get a chance"
(Spoken: I didn't know the Western Union run no train)
Said, "You go to the Western Union, you might get a chance"
You might get wire to some of your people and your fare will be sent right ahere
(Spoken: Hadn't thought that's the way it is)
I wanna go home, and that train is done gone dead
I wanna go, that train is done gone dead
I done lost my wife and my three little children, and my mother's sick in bed
Oooo-ooh please, help me win my fare
'Cause I'm a travelin' man, boys I can't stay here |
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_________________ SIR,I DON'T ENTERTAIN RIGMAROLE AND THERE IS NO ROOM FOR DILLY- DALLY.
the ball is in your cult
x 5 ARK & Co. incl. 1 safari w/ RS17 & NTBS
Dan the lotto man, ARK mugu wedding
Dennis the hitman, co-bait w/ Murry Guru
Zake (w/ SH, SL & Craig)
x 5 Modeling Mugu Meeting, w/ mewing_ghecko & Otterfan & SSC
x 2 another MMM w/ SH
x 13 Later shows and trips for the benefit of M00seknuckle, incl. the 0budu Fact Finding Mission
Come to our Eater University Baiting Tutorials Cos you deserve it. x5 x50+ x 4 -- |
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Badgerbait
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:52 pm |
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How big is your collection? I'll bet it is hard to find old blues LP like that. Nice. |
_________________ I have arrived in Moscow. Has gone to bank and to me have told that there is no such transfer for me!!!!
What does it mean? You played with me? If it so that you very much the cruel man and I am assured of that that the god will see your cruelty.
Explain to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Alena Byk0va
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x13 x3 x4
We are Karma's soldiers.
<a href="/forum/donate.php">Mugu Gold</a>
I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. -Hamlet, scene iv
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FrumpyBB
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:29 pm |
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Hehe well I spent a big part of the 1990ies and early 2000s weeks for overseas parcels Some 150 CDs of this particular genre and maybe 50 LPs, it´s not that much. I have no original 78RPM records (of this genre) like the two label shots above, they go too high on ebay and would lose value with each playing.
There are a few more W U Blues but it´s like I said, usually centering around receiving (no) telegrams. |
_________________ SIR,I DON'T ENTERTAIN RIGMAROLE AND THERE IS NO ROOM FOR DILLY- DALLY.
the ball is in your cult
x 5 ARK & Co. incl. 1 safari w/ RS17 & NTBS
Dan the lotto man, ARK mugu wedding
Dennis the hitman, co-bait w/ Murry Guru
Zake (w/ SH, SL & Craig)
x 5 Modeling Mugu Meeting, w/ mewing_ghecko & Otterfan & SSC
x 2 another MMM w/ SH
x 13 Later shows and trips for the benefit of M00seknuckle, incl. the 0budu Fact Finding Mission
Come to our Eater University Baiting Tutorials Cos you deserve it. x5 x50+ x 4 -- |
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lakeside77
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:44 pm |
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Maybe you saw
THIS ARTICLE
in the New York Times a few weeks ago. Badgerbait is right, it is hard to find old Blues LPs and EPs. And expensive. |
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I must let you know that am sick and tired of all this whole bull sheet do you know my ass is on the line - Jonh Raymund
i want to say i am very sorry for the Mother that gave Barth to you -- Jim Ovie
. . . it is disrespectful,malicious, an ILEDAN EYE,to our corporation and embarrassing to my secretary as he was messed up by your action. I thought I was assisting a true American gentleman without knowing that I am trying to help one of the most chaffs in the USA. --Dr. Leo Stan Ekeh
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FrumpyBB
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:07 pm |
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Thanks I read it on a specialized forum already. |
_________________ SIR,I DON'T ENTERTAIN RIGMAROLE AND THERE IS NO ROOM FOR DILLY- DALLY.
the ball is in your cult
x 5 ARK & Co. incl. 1 safari w/ RS17 & NTBS
Dan the lotto man, ARK mugu wedding
Dennis the hitman, co-bait w/ Murry Guru
Zake (w/ SH, SL & Craig)
x 5 Modeling Mugu Meeting, w/ mewing_ghecko & Otterfan & SSC
x 2 another MMM w/ SH
x 13 Later shows and trips for the benefit of M00seknuckle, incl. the 0budu Fact Finding Mission
Come to our Eater University Baiting Tutorials Cos you deserve it. x5 x50+ x 4 -- |
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Fowan Nyne
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:54 pm |
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Said, "You go to the Western Union, you might get a chance"
(Spoken: I didn't know the Western Union run no train)
Said, "You go to the Western Union, you might get a chance"
You might get wire to some of your people and your fare will be sent right ahere
(Spoken: Hadn't thought that's the way it is) |
After listening. That is still true to life now.
All those years...
Edit: Now I'm off on a tangent on YouTube listening to old blues (which I love).
See if I can find any "Mississippi John Hurt".
Finger picking good! |
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I can't wait for 'Eater Easter!
Find out about Rental Scams
"Note I am very weak by straight"
"Did you want to cheat me or play on my intelligent?"
"All necessary preparation for the movement of the stool are in the pipe line" - Stan "the man" Agbley
Click here to see a proper scam
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