《Steamboat Whistle Blues》歌词

[00:00:00] Steamboat Whistle Blues - John Hartford

[00:00:11] Well I started out to be a towboat man

[00:00:13] But I never got the hang of a ratchet bar

[00:00:15] I was a-growin up a-deckin in the

[00:00:17] Illinois trade with coal dust in my ear

[00:00:20] I got stuck in the ice on Christmas Eve

[00:00:22] And I froze my ass it's true

[00:00:25] Just a shiv'rin and a-shakin

[00:00:26] With a Down South case of them

[00:00:27] Steamboat whistle blues

[00:00:30] Oh Captain Way I'm sorry my hat is off to you

[00:00:35] You've been a-hanging out by the old cook stove

[00:00:37] With the steamboat whistle blues

[00:01:00] Well way up North I called your phone

[00:01:02] But I didn't get no one to answer

[00:01:04] So I opened up the window and I smoked a little bit

[00:01:07] And I watched the cars go by

[00:01:09] I'm gonna hunt you up and ask you

[00:01:11] If you found out anything new

[00:01:14] Or are you a-hangin to the best you had

[00:01:16] With the steamboat whistle blues

[00:01:19] I've been right here since nine o'clock

[00:01:21] And believe you me that's true

[00:01:24] Just a-lookin at the water ways churning

[00:01:26] With the steamboat whistle blues

[00:01:48] Well the city's growing up where it looks all square

[00:01:51] Like a crossword puzzle on the landscape

[00:01:53] It looks like an electric shaver now

[00:01:55] Where the courthouse used to be

[00:01:58] The grass is all synthetic

[00:02:00] And we don't know for sure about the food

[00:02:02] The only thing we know for sure is them

[00:02:05] Steamboat whistle blues

[00:02:08] I'd sit and watch my TV

[00:02:10] If I thought I could trust the news

[00:02:12] About the only thing I trust these days

[00:02:14] Is them steamboat whistle blues

[00:02:37] Well "far out" Johnny well I heard him say

[00:02:39] As he stretched out back on the water bed

[00:02:42] Bluegrass music is a thing of the past

[00:02:44] And the same for rock and roll

[00:02:46] And I loaned him two or three dollars

[00:02:48] And he gave me the latest news

[00:02:51] And he left me here with a Rolling Stone

[00:02:53] And the steamboat whistle blues

[00:02:56] I'll tear off down the river some day before I'm through

[00:03:01] Then come back here and see it out

[00:03:03] With the steamboat whistle blues