Leadbelly - Rock Island Line

Huddie Leadbetter, se hizo conocido con su nombre de blues Leadbelly,

fue unos de los primeros bluseros que alcanzaron a ser grabados alguna vez, por lo que sus grabaciones recogen la originalidad y esencia del Blues.

para conocerlo mejor existe una pelicula hecha en 1976, la pueden buscar en Youtube

si necesitan los subtitulos en español están aquí:

Subdivx - Leadbelly (1976).

Canciones destacables:

-House of the Rising Sun

-Goodnight, Irene

-Black Betty

-The Gallis Pole

-Where did you Sleep Last Night

-Midnight Special

-Rock Island Line

Rock Island Line

That Rock Island Line train, coming back this a-way. A traindriver, he pulls up to the toll-gate and the man hollers nicely what all he had on board, and he said:

I got cows, I got horses, I got hogs, I got sheep, I got goats, I got all live stock, I got all live stock!

Well, they said, you’re all right boy, you don’t have to pay no toll, and they gonna let that train on by. So, he goes on through the toll gate and as he goes through, he starts pickin’ up a little bit of speed, pickin’ up a little bit of steam. He got on through and he turns to look back at the man, and he says:

I done fooled ya!
I fooled you!
I got pig iron,
I got pig iron!
I got pig iron

Cat’s in the cupboard and she can’t find me
Oh the Rock Island Line is a mighty fine line
Oh the Rock Island Line is the road to ride
If you want to ride, you gotta ride it like you’re flyin’
Get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line

I may be right, and I may be wrong
Lawd you gonna miss me when I’m gone
Oh the Rock Island Line is a mighty fine line
Oh the Rock Island Line is the road to ride
If you want to ride, you gotta ride it like you’re flyin’
Get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line

Jesus died to save our sins
Glory to God I’m gonna see Him again
Oh the Rock Island Line is a mighty fine line
Oh the Rock Island Line is the road to ride
If you want to ride, you gotta ride it like you’re flyin’
Get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line

Moses stood on the Red Sea shore
Smothin’ the water with a two-by-four
Oh the Rock Island Line is a mighty fine line
Oh the Rock Island Line is the road to ride
If you want to ride, you gotta ride it like you’re flyin’
Get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line