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Steamboat Whistle Blues - John Hartford
Well I started out to be a towboat man
But I never got the hang of a ratchet bar
I was a-growin up a-deckin in the
Illinois trade with coal dust in my ear

I got stuck in the ice on Christmas Eve
And I froze my a** it's true

Just a shiv'rin and a-shakin
With a Down South case of them
Steamboat whistle blues

Oh Captain Way I'm sorry my hat is off to you
You've been a-hanging out by the old cook stove
With the steamboat whistle blues

Well way up North I called your phone
But I didn't get no one to answer

So I opened up the window and I smoked a little bit
And I watched the cars go by
I'm gonna hunt you up and ask you
If you found out anything new

Or are you a-hangin to the best you had
With the steamboat whistle blues

I've been right here since nine o'clock
And believe you me that's true

Just a-lookin at the water ways churning

With the steamboat whistle blues

Well the city's growing up where it looks all square
Like a crossword puzzle on the landscape

It looks like an electric shaver now
Where the courthouse used to be

The grass is all synthetic

And we don't know for sure about the food

The only thing we know for sure is them
Steamboat whistle blues

I'd sit and watch my TV

If I thought I could trust the news

About the only thing I trust these days
Is them steamboat whistle blues

Well "far out" Johnny well I heard him say
As he stretched out back on the water bed

Bluegrass music is a thing of the past
And the same for rock and roll

And I loaned him two or three dollars
And he gave me the latest news

And he left me here with a Rolling Stone
And the steamboat whistle blues

I'll tear off down the river some day before I'm through

Then come back here and see it out
With the steamboat whistle blues