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Buell Kazee, vocal and banjo - Jay Gould's Daughter

from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 5: Grown on American Soil by Field Recorders' Collective

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Around the bend came a passenger train
On the bumpers was a Hobo John.
He's a good old hobo, but he's dead and gone.
He’s dead and gone, dead and gone.
He’s a good old hobo, but he's dead and gone.

Charley Snyder was a good engineer,
He told his fireman not to fear.
All he needed was water and coal,
Put your head out the window, watch the drivers roll.
Watch the drivers roll, watch the drivers roll
Put your head out the window, watch the drivers roll.

Jay Gould's daughter said before she died,
"There was one more road that I'd like to ride.”
"Tell me, daughter, what could that be?”
"It's the southern California on the Santa Fe."
On the Santa Fe, on the Santa Fe
It’s the southern California on the Santa Fe.

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from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 5: Grown on American Soil, released August 7, 2023
Recorded by Mark Wilson, Winchester, KY, 3/73.

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