Poor Boy Long Way From Home - Lesson
Added 2020-11-12 15:48:11 +0000 UTCfDGCD - I learned this song from a recording of Virgil Anderson made at Berea, Kentucky in on 30 March 1985. Link to original: https://youtu.be/xNzuHOZJJEY
I'm a poor boy and a long old ways from home (x2)
I'm a poor boy I got nowhere to go
My clothes is so ragged I got no winter shoes (x2)
I'm going where them chilly winds don't blow
I may have to ride the blinds woman I ain't got a long time (x2)
But I'm going where the water drinks like wine
I wonder what my honey thinks of me (x2)
I wonder if she'd answer if I call
Won't you hand me down that long distance phone (x2)
Let me talk to that woman at home
You left me woman without a dollar to my name (x2)
You left me with my clothes all in bond
Comments
"Riding the Blind" is a method of hiding on a train, typically a freight train, by riding in the spaces between cars. "Riding the rod" is when you crawl underneath the car and hide there (very dangerous).
Clifton Hicks
2023-06-21 14:28:55 +0000 UTCWhat is the meaning of the lyric. "to ride the blinds"?
Michael J Schreiber
2023-06-19 13:58:13 +0000 UTCWould love a lesson on this one Clifton!
Gregor
2021-02-06 15:14:09 +0000 UTC
