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I've heard a couple of verses of that song for years and never understood it. You sang all the verses and now it makes sense to me. I always heard it sang "Last train from Poor Valley taking Becky Richmond DOWN... not bound. Bound makes sense, down didn't.
Very nice version of the song, both picking and singing. Thanks for posting (and for clearing up what that song really means).
A nice song nicely done.
A few more Norman Blake gems for your consideration:
"Southern Railroad Blues," "Chattanooga Sugar Babe," "Church Street Blues," Billy Gray," and "Lord, Won't You Help Me?"
(Wisht I'd've written me all of 'em!)
I also, understood it to mean DOWN, off the mountain, to the flatland, valley, town, whatever. You get the idea. That being said, far be it from me to criticize anyone else's interpretation of it. The part I had the most difficult time with was WTH was a coal tipple? I even asked a co-worker from West Va, & she had no clue. I just wrote it off as you gotta be a miner to understand.
That was about the same time, one of my assignments involved the design of a newer system of tracks & wheel bogies allowing an entire train of cars to climb to elevation & roll completely over, dumping the coal onto a conveyor belt.
I've known Norman for many years. He is quite exacting about his poetry, and insists that his own work makes good sense.
His North Georgia accent can be pretty heavy at times, and folks sometimes misunderstand his lyrics.
Saw the last train from Poor Valley
Taking brown-haired Becky Richmond bound.
One of the mothers in my congregation at the time, Beth Am in Palo Alto, witnessed one of the suicides from her car at the Caltrain station in Palo Alto. She told her Rabbi, Rabbi Janet Marder, who in turn told her congregation: A teenage girl was crawling on all fours toward the train track pit, then back away from the tracks, then back to the tracks, then away from the tracks, then back again. Back and forth, back and forth. By the time the woman realized what was happening and started to respond, the girl was gone, and the massive, double-decker, fast-moving train had screeched into the station.
Nearly a dozen Palo Alto teens died this way. Finally, the City of Palo Alto put a security guard there. The guard succeeded in wrestling some 18 more teens off of the tracks. Then, finally, technology offered a solution: insurmountably high fences and surveillance cameras.
So what can we do now, given the reality of limited professional help, to ensure that we can decrease the number of our teens dying by suicide? As caregivers, we can step up. We can work to create a physically and emotionally supportive infrastructure in your home.
For exercise, the recommendation for teens is 300 minutes each week, at least half of which should be moderate to vigorous. This is because exercise is one very powerful way to detox from the flood of toxic exposures in modern life.
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As an educator, I focus on creating schools based on connection, community, meaning, and purpose. We also educate students on the importance of healthy diet, sleep, exercise, and avoiding toxic substances and activities (eg digital addictions), but the most powerful element consists of 2-4 hours per day in conversations of various types.
However, this sequence of movement, combined with the violence of a rail track death; Might suggest the possibility of AKATHISIA? (It is recognised that it may not, and/or this may have been considered and not written about).
Was this tragic situation suicide, or might SSRI/SNRI/Psychptropic induced ADVERSE DRUG REACTION (ADR) have caused involuntary intoxication? It is recognised that many other prescription drugs can cause akathisia.
If aspirations to decrease avoidable suicide are to be successful, surely it is necessary to identify and record medication use, dose change, drug change. and drug withdrawal in detail on each and every occasion?
Instead of hypnosis and non Gmo food, please consider the hyper competitive, cultureless corporate environment of silicon valley. Stressful, perfectionist, performative life just to get ahead in a hollow and pointless system. All about trying to look good to impress someone else.
Social media and technology also factor in and this place is the heart of those things. This region is the cultural vanguard of whats to come if others follow the same economic and technological trends.
I was from a nearby school and a member of this generation. I took a specialized class that was hosted at Gunn High School. It was the ultimate stereotype of a dehumanizing high achieving elite school, with every volume knob ratcheted up to 11.
There was nowhere to turn for help. The cold peer competitiveness encouraged by the adults in charge could easily stifle even the deep human instincts children have towards friendship and cooperation. Many of them had no adult in their life they can turn to to express vulnerability or honest negative feelings. Suicide prevention involved and still involves incarceration, police and handcuffs, and the destruction of your social reputation, therefore your academic prospects, therefore your future among the elites, therefore you will be relegated to immobile, choking poverty with no light at the end of the tunnel.
Even barring the escape of suicide, how does a child survive a world like that:a distorted world of propaganda that enshrines the myth of academic meritocracy as the ultimate determinant of human worth, a world of increasing systemic violence and contempt and devaluation towards natural human fallibility, a world of such stark wealth inequality, of deep social and emotional suppression, that measures the humanities in terms of being lesser tools for winning at the rigged game of our neoliberal labor market, that architects such heavy deterrents against natural adolescent instincts for experimentation, rebellion, mistakes, pressure release, existential exploration?
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