466. Train . . . Run So Fast
From Blake B. Harrison, Trinity College student. December 5. 1919.
with music. As in White ANFS 402 (without music).
1 Train, train, train, train, run so fast,
Couldn't see nothing but de trees go past.
Refrain :
Don't tell mama where I'm gone.
Cause I'm on m\- wa\' back home.
2 Mister, Mister, I don't want to fight ;
I got de heart disease, don't feel just right.
3 Mister. Mister. I don't want to fight.
I'm gwine to de functum* and stay all night.
[*This seems to be a negroism for "function" (formal social affair).]
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466
Train . Run SO Fast
'Train . . . Run so Fast.' Sung by Blake B. Harrison, Trinity College,
Durham, December 5, 1919. The Negro influence as well as that of the
popular music of the day can be seen from the chromatic alterations of an
otherwise straight-laced pentatonic mode.
F-431
Train, train, train, train, run so fast, Could -n't see noth-ing
but de trees- go
past.-
Don't tell
ma - ma,
where I'm gone. Cause I'm on my way back home.
Scale: Hexatonic (4), plagal. Tonal Center: d. Structure: aba^c (3.2,3,2)
^ aai (5,5). The fourth and fifth measures of the smaller subdivision are
really nothing but an elaborated variation of the initial three.