Rodgers invited the group to join him in his upcoming session after trying out some songs with their backing. To wait for a truck, a truck, a van that must bring goods but never arrive, be at the station, take a ticket to take a train to an unknown destination, travel on a train without passengers, get off a train or get on a train that is not stationary, eat in the train, sleep in a train, arrive late in a city, make an appointment because of the train. He is found by a brakeman while riding through Texas, and thrown off of the boxcar to continue on foot. The themes depicted on it became commonplace in the lives of unemployed Americans. Based on the aggregate score of 73 by operators, disk-jockeys and record dealers, Billboard deemed Tubb's version on its scale as "good". Sociologists Guy Benton Johnson and Howard W. Odum collected verses of the song during their field research of black culture in the Southern United States in the late 1910s. Daddy My Daddy – The Railway Children. [23] In respect to Rodgers' role, critic Dave Marsh has pointed out: "it was Rodgers—far more than Woody Guthrie—who was the true voice of the Depression". [12], Rodgers arrived in Atlanta, Georgia, a week before his recording session for the Victor Talking Machine Company was scheduled. Johnson played "Waiting for a Train", and imitated Rodgers' yodel. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1983 Vinyl release of "Waiting For A Train" on Discogs. Rodgers' daughter lent him one of her fathers' costumes to wear during the appearance. "Desperados Waiting for a Train" is a song written by Guy Clark and originally recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker for his 1973 album Viva Terlingua. [2] In 1929, Prince Albert Hunt released it as "Waltz of the Roses" on Okeh Records. C G7 C C7 F Fm C I haven't got a nickel, not a penny can I show. and he slammed the box-car door. The origins of the song were traced by D. K. Wilgus, a music scholar and professor at UCLA, to a mid-nineteenth-century broadside ballad printed by Catnach Press in London, entitled "Standing on the Platform", with the subtitle "Waiting for the train". [4] The composition was also traditionally known as "Danville Girl". [11] The recording introduced Rodgers' trademark train whistle. 4" and "Waiting for a Train" owned by his father as the first guitar recordings he heard. The UK single was released on Easy Beat Records and distributed by Ensign Records Ltd. A fan of Rodgers', Cash designed a concept show based around him. I walked up to a brakeman To give him a line of talk He said if you've got money I'll see that you don't walk. [21], The disk sold 365,000 copies upon its release, and became Rodgers' second-best-selling recording,[6] behind the pairing of "Blue Yodel No. [48] It peaked at eleven in the Hot Country Singles chart in 1971. Waiting for a train / Jimmie Rodgers", "Yodeller Pleases: Jimmie Rodgers On At the Palace", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waiting_for_a_Train_(Jimmie_Rodgers_song)&oldid=1007586433, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, ""I'm Lonely And Blue" / "The Sailor's Plea"", This page was last edited on 18 February 2021, at 22:31. [17], It was paired with a song from a later session, "Blue Yodel No. In the UK, until the release of "Waiting for a Train" in 1983 they had been a one-hit wonder, which was coincidental as the expression, 'Flash in the pan', denotes something which is only briefly popular. Modified versions of the ballad appeared in diverse songbooks of the era, such as Billy Newcomb's San Francisco Minstrels' Songster (1868), Billy Cottons Ethiopian Songster (1870), a sheet music published by S. Brainard Sons (1870) and Coming Through the Rye (1871). 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