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Midnight Special Blues (Sam Collins) (Original Post)
struggle4progress
Feb 2015
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(118,334 posts)1. Lead Belly
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(118,334 posts)2. Joe Turner
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(118,334 posts)3. Harry Belafonte
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(118,334 posts)4. Big Bill Broonzy
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(118,334 posts)5. Jody Miller
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(118,334 posts)6. Buckwheat Zydeco
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(118,334 posts)7. Otis Rush
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(118,334 posts)8. Lonnie Donegan
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(118,334 posts)9. Cisco Houston
handmade34
(22,757 posts)10. mind if I interrupt?
Midnight Special originally sung by Lead Belly. The song is based on his experience of getting arrested Houston, his stay at the Sugar Land Prison (now the Beauford H. Jester pre-release Center) in 1925, and the legend of the Midnight Special.
The Midnight Special was a train that ran from Houston to San Antonio, approximating the route of Alternate 90. The train passed through the middle of the town of Sugar Land, and west of town, through the heart of what used to be known as the Imperial State Prison Farm (Sugar Land Prison), each day at midnight. Its headlight flashed through the bars and into the prison.
The superstition was that if the light shined on you, that meant your woman was on the train with the papers from the Governor to get you out of prison. Thus, the men hoped the light of the Midnight Special would shine it light on them.
The Midnight Special was a train that ran from Houston to San Antonio, approximating the route of Alternate 90. The train passed through the middle of the town of Sugar Land, and west of town, through the heart of what used to be known as the Imperial State Prison Farm (Sugar Land Prison), each day at midnight. Its headlight flashed through the bars and into the prison.
The superstition was that if the light shined on you, that meant your woman was on the train with the papers from the Governor to get you out of prison. Thus, the men hoped the light of the Midnight Special would shine it light on them.
struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)13. Midnight Special (Howard Odum, 1905)
... yonder come miss Rosey!
how in the world do you know?
how in the world do you know?
well I know her by her apron and the dress she wore.
umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand,
she gonna tell old John, she want back her man.
she want back her man ...
http://www.aerenlund.dk/tekster/vis_print.asp?id=606&print=ja
how in the world do you know?
how in the world do you know?
well I know her by her apron and the dress she wore.
umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand,
she gonna tell old John, she want back her man.
she want back her man ...
http://www.aerenlund.dk/tekster/vis_print.asp?id=606&print=ja
KMOD
(7,906 posts)11. oh baby
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(23,340 posts)12. what? No Wolfman Jack?