LAST FAIR DEAL GONE DOWN
It's the last fair deal goin' down last fair deaì goin' down lt's the last fair deal goin' down, good Lord on that Gulfport lsland Road Eh, Ida Belle, don't cry this time Ida Belle, don't cry this time If you cry about a nickel you'll die 'bout a dime She wouldn't cry but the money won't mine I love the way you do I love the way you do I love the way you do, good Lord On this Gulfport lsland Road My captain's so mean on me my captain's so mean on me My captain's so mean on m'-mmm, good Lord On this Gulfport Island Road Take camp tain he and see camp ain't he and see At scal ain't be at seen, good Lord On that Gulfport Island Road Ah, this last fair deal goin' down it's the last fair deal goin' down This' the last fair deal goin' down, good Lord On this Gulfport Island Road I'm workin' my way back home I'm workin' my way back home I'm workin' my way hack home, good Lord On this Gulfport Island Road And that thing don't keep a-ringin' so soon that thing don't keep a-ringin' so soon And that thing don't keep a-ringin' so soon, good Lord On that Gulfed and Port Island Road Notes: 1. The Gulf &Ship Island Railroad linked the docks at Ship Island, Miss., just off the mainland at Gulfport, with the main line at Jackson. It ran through Hattiesburg and was completed July 4. 1900, its vice-president being the coIorful Calonel William C. Falkner, grandfather of the famous American novelist, Williaam Faulkner. It was purchased by the Illinois Central in JuIy 1925 for five million dolIars and over the next three yeors over one and a half times that amount was spent on improvements! 2. The underIined passages above are phonetic approximations of what Johnson sings, which, in truth, may be nonsensical. 3. The "won't" in the first verse is a dialectic substitute for "weren't". BACK |
Sito pensato e realizzato da Roberto Mammola 1999 - 2001 |