"She caught the Katy"----- What's a "Katy" ???
Bobby McGee
and it hit me that I have no idea what a Katy is. I am thinkin some
sort of a train or subway?
Just wonderin, and Thanks
Bob
PS> Woulda been nice to hear Jer cover this one.
Jperdue4
You should here Panic do it...Katy is a train....
:)
JonP
leftie
> Just listening to this great, groovin tune on an old Blues Bros album
> and it hit me that I have no idea what a Katy is. I am thinkin some
> sort of a train or subway?
The "Katy" was the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Line train. The M-K-T was often
called "the K-T" or "the Katy" for short.
Taj Mahal, Leftover Salmon and Widespread Panic are among those with
great versions of this song in their repertoires.
"she left me a mule to ride..."
slenon
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http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/index.html/slhomepage92kword.htm
Shelby0314uk
Note 1: Katy, or KT, which stands for Kansan and Texas Railroad (K&T);
Note 2: mule, refers to a slower moving, local train. Actual meaning of mule: a
hybrid between a horse and a donkey, in particular the offspring of a male
donkey and a mare. In this case it's metaphor for a slow transport.
leftie
> called "the K-T" or "the Katy" for short.
BTW, if one were "leaving Texas" (fourth day out of July or otherwise)
because they had to "get to Tulsa, first train I can ride" (to settle
one old score or otherwise) , it would be the Katy they'd ride.
"the sun so hot, the clouds so low..."
Jperdue4
>great versions of this song in their repertoires.
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Its also cool that all those folk's versions are a bit different.....Great
song...
JonP
Dan Stanley
"leftie" <n...@spam.com> wrote in message
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Taj wrote it, believe it or not, along w/ someone named Yank Rachel. At
least, that's what it says right here on this Albert King compilation I just
happened to playing when I opened this thread. Weird synchronicity, that...
Dan
volkfolk
"Bobby McGee" <dead...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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The "Katy" is a train, specificly a long since defunct railroad, The
Missouri-Kansas-Texas, which for reasons which I can't tell you was
nicknamed the "Katy"
(I beleive it has to do with the initials)
Here is a link if you are at all interested in the history
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/eqm8.html
I believe that what remains of the railroad is now part of the Burlington
Northern and Santa Fe or the Southern Pacific
Scot
Bobby McGee
knowledge of this group.
Thanks for the line also Leftie cause I didn't know it was "left me a
mule to ride" I thought it was "left me and YOU to ride" Oh well. :)
I will look for the other versions of it for sure. I love the Panic!
I also have it done on a live disc by Taj Mahal.
Thanks again
Bob
Mike Z. Helm
Why you snubbin' Warren?
I-10 is known as the Katy Freeway in Houston. There used to be tracks
paralleling the freeway until 5-10 years ago.
>"she left me a mule to ride..."
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There's no way to delay that trouble comin' everyday
Joker4153
>From: dead...@hotmail.com (Bobby McGee)
>Date: Wed, Jul 28, 2004 3:15 PM
>Message-id: <8efa536b.04072...@posting.google.com>
And now if I could just find me a woman so long and so tall, she sleep with her
head in the kitchen and big feet out in the hall...
Lary
DBrophy479
>Taj wrote it, believe it or not, along w/ someone named Yank Rachel. At
>least, that's what it says right here on this Albert King compilation I just
>happened to playing when I opened this thread. Weird synchronicity, that...
Yank Rachel was a black mandolin player from a small town in TN.Like a lot of
blues players who recorded in the 20's and 30's and then drifted into obscurity
when the record business practically went kaput in the peak of the
Depression,he was "rediscovered" in the early 60's.
His music was blues-based string band stuff,very much along the lines of the
jug bands.He recorded with Taj and John Sebastian,among others.
Jperdue4
Jonp
lol...
Jperdue4
That line was stolen from Robert Johnson's tunes "hot tamales"....
JonP
JimK
I'd be willing to wager that Robert probably "stole" it from somebody
else, who had stolen it from somebody else, etc., etc.
JimK
Jperdue4
Link?...
:)
JonP
JimK
Nope. But most of those old blues songs were around in one form or
another long before they were "written" and recorded by anybody.
JimK
Steve Terry
"Dan Stanley" <vze2...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Taj wrote it, believe it or not, along w/ someone named Yank Rachel. At
> least, that's what it says right here on this Albert King compilation I
just
> happened to playing when I opened this thread. Weird synchronicity,
that...
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Stranger Here". It was collected by the Lomaxes in 1937 and appears in their
book, "Our Singing Country". The source was a white woman named Mrs. Louise
Henson in San Antonio, Texas. The version I use appears in the "Reprints
from Sing Out! 1959-1964". Here are the lyrics as I sing them:
Ain't it hard to stumble when you got no place to fall
Ain't it hard to stumble when you got no place to fall
In this whole wide world
I got no place at all
Chorus:
I'm a stranger here, a stranger everywhere
I would go home, but honey I'm a stranger here
Hitch up my pony, saddle up my big black mare
Hitch up my pony, saddle up my big black mare
I gonna find me a fair shake
In this world somewhere
-chorus-
Baby took the Katy, left me mule to ride
Baby took the Katy, left me mule to ride
When the train pulled out
That mule laid down and died
-chorus-
Jperdue4
>>:)
>>JonP
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>Nope. But most of those old blues songs were around in one form or
>another long before they were "written" and recorded by anybody.
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I know, i was jist bein a joyke...
:)
JonP
JimK
Aha! Got me!
JimK
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