This Train

by Big Bill Broonzy recording of 19 from Blues Roots Vol. 4, This train don't carry no gamblers, this train This train don't carry no gamblers, this train This train don't carry no gamblers, no whiskey drinkers, and no high flyers This train carry no gamblers, this train This train is bound for glory, this train This train is bound for glory, this train This train is bound for glory, don't carry nothing, but the righteous and the holy This train bound for glory, this train This train don't carry no liars, this train This train don't carry no liars, this train This train don't carry no liars, no hypocrites and no high flyers This train don't carry no liars, this train This train is built for speed, boy, this train This train is built for speed, now, this train This train is built for speed, fastest train you ever did see Now, this train is built for speed, boy, this train This train is solid black, oh, this train This train is solid black, oh, this train This train is solid black, when you go there you don't come back Oh, this train is built for glory, this train This train don't fit no transportation on this train This train don't fit no transportation on this train This train, you know, don't fit no transportation, no Jim Crow and no discrimination on This train is bound for glory, this train This train don't care if you white or black on this train This train don't care if you white or black on this train This train don't care if you white or black, everybody's treated just like a man This train is bound for glory, this train This train is bound for glory, this train This train is bound for glory, this train This train is bound for glory, don't carry nothing but the righteous an' a holy This train is bound for glory, this train This train, This train, This train

 

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Playing "Help-Me" In the Style of Sonny Boy Williamson II: A step by step, note for note analysis of some of Sonny Boy's Signature Riffs