Blues on a Train
Daniel Wintermeyer 1952 (Minneapolis)
Those mighty wheels of steel
rolling down the tracks
Im playing blues for real
keepin time with the clickety clack
Im lost in the music as we roll along
Playin my harps goin from song to song
so lost was I at 3 am a crowd gathered
to hear my jam
Brothers and sisters of the rail
joined together by blues
as we sail on down the line
Blowin those harps
My foot tappin time
I musta played two hours or so
I never knew they were there
when I was done they wondered away
The music was the glue that bound us there
a moment in wailin blues and love
never saw them folks again
But Ill never forget that night
when strangers became brothers
and it seemed so right
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Submitted by papapoet1952 on May 14, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 635 |
Words | 131 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
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