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Asa Martin, vocal and guitar; Jim Gaskin, guitar - On My Way Back Home

from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 4: The Anglo​-​African Exchange by Field Recorders' Collective

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The longest train that ever I saw
Was leaving Joe Brown’s coal mine
That engine was pulling up that Reno Hill
Caboose had never left that town. (2)

If you say so, I’ll railroad no more
Lay down my hammer and come home
But the train’s off the track, can’t get it back
Fourteen hundred miles from home. (2)

Only gal ever I loved
Waiting back home for me.
[If] I get out of this old jailhouse
That’s where I’m going to be
On my way back home.

With that long steel rail and that short cross tie
I’m beating my way back home.
Oh, I’m beating my way back home. (2)

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from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 4: The Anglo​-​African Exchange, released August 7, 2023
Recorded by Mark Wilson, Irvine, KY, 3/73. Previously unissued.

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