Narration #5 (Same Train, A Different Time) - Merle Haggard

Jimmie rodgers knew when the time was near

But he still had a lotta songs he wanted to record

So he made arrangements to go from his home in texas to galveston and

Then on farther by boat.

And he left the boat someplace on the east coast

And continued on to new york by train.

But by the time he arrived in new

York city he was so weekend by tuberculosis.

It was necessary for him to

Have a cot in the recording studio so that he might rest in between songs

Amazingly his voice tho weak never broke while recording his last twelve

Numbers jimmie rodgers used his last bit of strength for recording

He died in a hotel in new york city on the night of may 26, 1933

His railroad buddies paid jimmie rodgers his last homage

The engineer of the train upon which his body was placed pulled his quill

Down to a sad low moan and this sound was maintained all the way to

Mississippi.

His fans gathered at small whistle stops all along the route all

The way to meridian.

Jimmie rodgers rests today in meridian mississippi

In the shadow of the great locomotive he loved and sang of so well…

The blue yodler has been gone almost 40 years

But he left us one of the greatest legacies in country music