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Thank you, my friend SGT (Join to see) for sharing the audio track of Lead Belly performing traditional folk song "Midnight Special" which he "popularized it upon his release from Sugar Land prison in Texas, where he could hear the Midnight Special come through."
"According to folk music historian Alan Lomax as documented in the book Folk Song USA, the Midnight Special was a real train: the Southern Pacific Golden Gate Limited. A traditional folk song, Leadbelly popularized it upon his release from Sugar Land prison in Texas, where he could hear the Midnight Special come through. In the song, the light of the train gives the inmates hope - if it shines on them they take it as a sign they will soon go free.
Many blues artists have recorded this song, but it was also covered by musicians of many styles like ABBA, Van Morrison and Johnny Rivers. One of the most popular covers is by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and it was a #16 US hit for Paul Evans in 1960 when he was touring as a teen idol promoting "Seven Little Girls (Sitting In The Back Seat)." Evans told us: "Real, real folk singers always did that song. I cut it 'cause I loved it, that's it. [John Fogerty] told an interviewer why he eventually cut the song. 'I once heard a record made by a Paul Evans, and I liked it a lot. And I did it his way, except we just rocked it up a little more.' You know, these are little joys you get as you travel through life, to have a star of that magnitude say that on that song he heard my record and liked it enough to want to record it himself." (
"Midnight Special"
Lyrics
"Yonder come Miss Rosie, how in the world do you know
Well I know by the apron and the dress she wore
Well an umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand
Well I'm gonna ask the governor, he turn a-lose a-my man
Let the midnight special, shine the light on me
Let the midnight special, shine the ever-lovin' light on me
When you get up in the mornin', when that big bell ring
You go and march to the table, see the same damn thing
Knife and fork are on the table, there's nothin' in my pan
And if you say anything about it, havin' trouble with the man
Well I went to the nation and to the territo(ry)
Well I thought about the girl I love, in that Mexico
If you ever go to Houston, oh you better walk right
And you better not squallow and you better not fight
Sheriff Rocko will arrest you, Eddie Boone will take you down
You can bet your bottom dollar, penitentiary bound
Well jumpin' little Judy, she was a mighty fine girl
Well Judy brought jumpin' to this whole round world
Well she brought it in the mornin', just a while before day
She brought me the news, that my wife was dead
That started me to grievin', then hollerin' and a-cryin'
Then I had to give the worry about a been a long time"
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless CPT Scott Sharon SSG William Jones
"According to folk music historian Alan Lomax as documented in the book Folk Song USA, the Midnight Special was a real train: the Southern Pacific Golden Gate Limited. A traditional folk song, Leadbelly popularized it upon his release from Sugar Land prison in Texas, where he could hear the Midnight Special come through. In the song, the light of the train gives the inmates hope - if it shines on them they take it as a sign they will soon go free.
Many blues artists have recorded this song, but it was also covered by musicians of many styles like ABBA, Van Morrison and Johnny Rivers. One of the most popular covers is by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and it was a #16 US hit for Paul Evans in 1960 when he was touring as a teen idol promoting "Seven Little Girls (Sitting In The Back Seat)." Evans told us: "Real, real folk singers always did that song. I cut it 'cause I loved it, that's it. [John Fogerty] told an interviewer why he eventually cut the song. 'I once heard a record made by a Paul Evans, and I liked it a lot. And I did it his way, except we just rocked it up a little more.' You know, these are little joys you get as you travel through life, to have a star of that magnitude say that on that song he heard my record and liked it enough to want to record it himself." (
"Midnight Special"
Lyrics
"Yonder come Miss Rosie, how in the world do you know
Well I know by the apron and the dress she wore
Well an umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand
Well I'm gonna ask the governor, he turn a-lose a-my man
Let the midnight special, shine the light on me
Let the midnight special, shine the ever-lovin' light on me
When you get up in the mornin', when that big bell ring
You go and march to the table, see the same damn thing
Knife and fork are on the table, there's nothin' in my pan
And if you say anything about it, havin' trouble with the man
Well I went to the nation and to the territo(ry)
Well I thought about the girl I love, in that Mexico
If you ever go to Houston, oh you better walk right
And you better not squallow and you better not fight
Sheriff Rocko will arrest you, Eddie Boone will take you down
You can bet your bottom dollar, penitentiary bound
Well jumpin' little Judy, she was a mighty fine girl
Well Judy brought jumpin' to this whole round world
Well she brought it in the mornin', just a while before day
She brought me the news, that my wife was dead
That started me to grievin', then hollerin' and a-cryin'
Then I had to give the worry about a been a long time"
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless CPT Scott Sharon SSG William Jones
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
A while bAck I had cassettes that i made when o’seas on some high grade cassettes(hour long) later on ... several years.. I was at my latest base and some goof head commented that guys like me were killing him because we made our own tapes.. I told him I make my tapes for my entertainment, not nobody else’s.. a couple weeks later my room got busted into.... they had piled my tapes in the shower and poured draino over them.. he got caught by 1SGT and
Cmdr who were coming through barracks on inspection tour.. they estimated $500 worth of cassettes at current prices for them days.. He demanded general court martial .. which he got.. He wanted reduced
Charges because of some music was pirated....( I had copied off copyrighted tapes..). I stated I copied some at the base rec center taping lab in Thailand. I signed a form declaring they were for my own private listening pleasure...and no intent for sale to others.. my declaration was accepted. The culprit got no break.. $500 was taken from his pay and paid to me.. He got busted to E-1..and fined 1/2 base pay for an extended Amt of time returned to custody of the corrections facility at_____-_____ in
Wash State. A few thou mi.from his home in Upper Vermont(Real close to Canadian border.. definitely the
Sentence was meant to be a deterrent to escape.... He applied to
ACLU that it was a hardship on his mom (he had 3 bro’s at home to take care of her.). Ok... we’ll concede.... Leavenworth, Kansas. ..
So that’s where he got sent over
Trashing my room(furniture was gov’t poroperty... he cut that up). And the tapes. I believe the hard time was more for the government furniture .. they had included a board I had across my desk and the fridge..that had been a shelf(6 Ft long). On my wall.. he busted that..
I wonder how many of them end up doing more than their original sentence?(fighting and other charges that may befall them)...
if he just did his sentence.. he’d of
Been out prison by ‘90...
Cmdr who were coming through barracks on inspection tour.. they estimated $500 worth of cassettes at current prices for them days.. He demanded general court martial .. which he got.. He wanted reduced
Charges because of some music was pirated....( I had copied off copyrighted tapes..). I stated I copied some at the base rec center taping lab in Thailand. I signed a form declaring they were for my own private listening pleasure...and no intent for sale to others.. my declaration was accepted. The culprit got no break.. $500 was taken from his pay and paid to me.. He got busted to E-1..and fined 1/2 base pay for an extended Amt of time returned to custody of the corrections facility at_____-_____ in
Wash State. A few thou mi.from his home in Upper Vermont(Real close to Canadian border.. definitely the
Sentence was meant to be a deterrent to escape.... He applied to
ACLU that it was a hardship on his mom (he had 3 bro’s at home to take care of her.). Ok... we’ll concede.... Leavenworth, Kansas. ..
So that’s where he got sent over
Trashing my room(furniture was gov’t poroperty... he cut that up). And the tapes. I believe the hard time was more for the government furniture .. they had included a board I had across my desk and the fridge..that had been a shelf(6 Ft long). On my wall.. he busted that..
I wonder how many of them end up doing more than their original sentence?(fighting and other charges that may befall them)...
if he just did his sentence.. he’d of
Been out prison by ‘90...
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