“Better Get Your Ticket”

Description

"Better git yo' ticket (x2), Train's a-comin', Lord-ee-ee, Lord-ee-ee! Um-um-um-um-um-um-um-um-um." "Hold your bonnet, Hold your shawl, Don't let go that waterfall, Shout, Sister Betty, Shout!"

Notes

I suspect this is a variant on one of the "Gospel Train" songs, but the form is different enough and Scarborough's text so short that it's not possible to tell which one. So it gets a separate entry. - RBW

References

  1. Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 239, (no title) (1 short text)
  2. BI, ScNF239B

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1925 (Scarborough)
Keywords: train religious
Found in: US(So)