A fast stream line leaving Memphis,
I'm not in New Orleans.
She running so fast the whole boat's on foot.
This train is not on the track with the hand-to-hand.
This train, Lucille was leaving book on 1944.
Lucille had told me all about it,
Ken Peebles,
the first girl that came from Detroit.
By the track being cold and froze,
I thought the train'd be late getting in there.
She had told me all about it,
Ken Peebles,
the first girl that came from Detroit.
When he got out on that night,
about 12,
15,
when he got off the train,
she looked and
seen him, she'd run and kissed him.
When she'd run and kissed the first cousin,
I knocked her down.
When I knocked her down,
she got up,
pulled up by my pants,
legs,
and I said,
you don't
be sorry, daddy, you knocked me down.
Mama fixed and put you down.
You hear that straight line,
36th Avenue,
Union Station,
that morning,
it looked like
coming especially at my baby.
When she jumped in that 15-mile car,
the man throwed the light on him,
getting out,
jumping across that automatic switch that morning.
I just had to borrow Lucille one of them pretty famous house
coach two,
three days before this trouble coming up.
Old man was 85 years old, told me.
He said,
son,
don't ever mistreat your wife or your girlfriend.
Let her sleep on one side of the bed
and you sleep on the other side.
Because overnight,
she'll get up and put one of them
pillows or one of those case on your head,
and when you wake up that morning,
she'll be 2,000, 3,000 miles away from home.
I put the bullhawk on Lucille.
She couldn't get up there, and she wake me up.
So she woke up that day at just about 4 o'clock that morning.
She said, daddy, what's wrong with you?
I said, Lucille, I'm going back to my church.
I've been wrestling with a bull and a snake for a couple of weeks.
So she wanted a cigarette.
I let her.
While she was getting her cigarette,
I said,
baby,
would you mind bringing me a glass of water?
She got that house coach with her right and
pulled it across and pulled it here with her left,
come to my bed, sang me a song.
I'll be so glad when I can see the sun.
Gonna be sun-kissing up there.
You hear that stream line tippling there that morning?
Pray for me, my baby, don't get gone.
You got to pray for me this morning.
The first thing a man would do when his wife or girlfriend
quit him
and don't be at home, he's
going to ease up to one of them trunk or one of them shift
rolls.
I eased up to the shift roll that morning about 10,
30.
Wasn't nothing to tend to,
and now with the bag that come off them good clothes.
I thought about the trunk that her great-grandmother gave her for
her birthday present when she was nine years old.
I had some lead, wasn't anything but the tray.
I said, I know Booker got to get away now.
I sat out in the floor and thought of Booker
down about to get out to Union Station and
beg her back.
I mean,
like she done made a mistake and packed up some of my silk shape.
I rushed on down to Union Station.
When she seen me coming up to Union Station step,
she looked back over her left
shoulder, come and sang me a song.
Too late,
daddy mama trunk is gone.
Don't you be in my home.
I tell you,
she done got in 15 mile Union Station.
You can hear her chug them rails, hit them.